A dimension within Cultural Heritage & Arts
Focusing on preserving tribal identity through language, mother tongue, and traditional culture.
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Overall Community Sentiment
AI-synthesised pieces woven from many community voices on this theme. They may contain errors or interpretation — they're a reflection of the stories, not a record of fact.
We pass on traditional and new tribal knowledge from elders to young people through organized camps, ensuring it endures for future generations.
Amidst modern stresses, our community finds strength and identity in safeguarding traditional knowledge and cultural practices through the wisdom of elders.
We ensure our children's well-being and cultural continuity by teaching them about the forest's bounty and the richness of our ancestral language and traditions.
In Dindori's tribal communities, people are actively preserving their unique lifestyle, diet, customs, and traditions by sharing their heritage and raising awareness.
Songs, dances, and folktales are the mediums to transfer traditional knowledge from one generation to another. The government should preserve and promote traditional songs, dances, and folktales in our community. Our mother tongue should continue to be spoken by the next generation. Marriages, traditional songs, dances, Mandals, and Dhol musical instruments provide identity to our tribe. Women and men play traditional games.
— Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha
Songs, dances, and folktales are mediums to transfer traditional knowledge from one generation to another. The government should preserve and promote traditional songs, dances, and folktales in our community. Our mother tongue should continue to be spoken by the next generation. Marriages, traditional songs, dances, Mandar, and Dhol instruments give identity to our tribe - women and men play traditional games.
— Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha
Songs, dances, and folk tales are mediums to transfer traditional knowledge from one generation to another.The government should preserve and promote traditional songs, dances, and folk tales in our community so that our mother tongue continues to be spoken by the next generation.Weddings, traditional songs, dances, mandal, and dhol instruments give identity to our tribe - women and men play traditional games.
— DASHARATH SINGH · Sambalpur, Odisha
Songs, dances, and folk tales are mediums for transferring traditional knowledge from one generation to another. The government should preserve and promote traditional songs, dances, and folk tales in our community. Our mother tongue should continue to be spoken by the next generation. Marriage, traditional songs, dances, Mandals, and Dhol musical instruments provide identity to our tribe - women and men play traditional games.
— Kumudini Chhanchan · Jamunkira, Sambalpur, Odisha
Songs, dances, and folk tales are mediums for transferring traditional knowledge from one generation to another. The government should preserve and promote traditional songs, dances, and folk tales in our community. Our mother tongue should continue to be spoken by the next generation. Weddings, traditional songs, dances, Mandali (drum), and Dhol musical instruments give identity to our tribe. Both women and men play traditional games.
— Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha
Songs, dances, and folk tales are the means to transfer traditional knowledge from one generation to another. The government should preserve and promote traditional songs, dances, and folk tales in our community. Our mother tongue should continue to be spoken by the next generation. Weddings, traditional songs, dances, Mandals, and Dhol musical instruments define the identity of our tribe. Women and men play traditional games.
— DASHARATH SINGH · Sambalpur, Odisha
Songs, dances, and folktales are a medium for transferring traditional knowledge from one generation to another. To the government, for preserving and promoting traditional songs, dances, and folktales in our community. Our mother tongue should continue to be spoken by the next generation. Marriages, traditional songs, dances, mandal, and dhol musical instruments give identity to our tribe – women and men play traditional games.
— Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha
Songs, dances, and folktales are important mediums for transferring traditional knowledge from one generation to another. The government should take steps to preserve and promote traditional songs, dances, and folktales in our community. I think our mother tongue should continue to be spoken by the next generation. Marriages, traditional songs, dances, and the Mandar instrument give identity to our tribe - women and girls play games with traditional music.
— DASHARATH SINGH · Sambalpur, Odisha
Songs, dances, and folktales are important mediums for transferring traditional knowledge from one generation to another. The government should take steps to preserve and promote our songs, dances, and folktales.
— Praska Gangarao
Songs, dances, and folktales are important mediums for transferring traditional knowledge from one generation to another. The government should take steps to preserve and promote songs, dances, and folktales.
— Praska Gangarao
Songs, dances, and folktales are important mediums for transferring traditional knowledge from one generation to another. This should be preserved.
— sudhir gamanga · Kharlingi, Housingboard Colony, Rayagada
Songs, dances, and folktales are important mediums for transferring traditional knowledge from one generation to another.
— AbhiLL Ipsa
Songs, dances, and folktales are important mediums for transferring traditional knowledge from one generation to another.
— Batakrushna Sahoo
Songs, dances, and folk tales are important mediums for transferring traditional knowledge from one generation to another.
— AbhiLL Ipsa
The government should take steps to preserve and promote traditional songs, dances, and folk tales in our community.
— AbhiLL Ipsa
The government should take steps to preserve songs, dances, and folk tales and ensure their transmission from one generation to the next.
— anita khora · Sutipadar, Koraput, Odisha
We should preserve our culture so that knowledge can be passed from one generation to another through our songs and dances.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
The government should promote our culture and folk dance songs so that they are known from generation to generation.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Kasdol, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
The government should take steps to pass on our culture, preserving songs, dances, and folk tales, from one generation to another.
— anita khora · Katalaguda, Koraput, Odisha
The government should take steps to preserve and promote traditional songs, dances, and folklore in our community.
— AbhiLL Ipsa
We should preserve our cultural traditions, games, dances, songs, stories, conversations, and all these for the next generation.
— Priti majhi
Yes, songs, dance andology is important medium for passing traditional knowledge from one generation to another.
— Santosh Barik · Kalahandi, Odisha
Hmm, certainly, the government should take steps to preserve and promote the traditional songs, dances, and folk tales of our community.
— gobardhan pangi
Songs, dances, stories, and knowledge are good mediums to transmit from one generation to another.
— Kachala Choudhary
One should preserve their cultural traditions, games, dances, songs, stories, and conversations for the next generation.
— Priti majhi
Through traditional songs and dance, we can preserve our culture.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
Our children should not forget our traditional cultural dance, songs, and games.
— Laxmi
Songs, dances, Kui language, musical instruments, traditional games, carrying forward to the next generation.
— Sabina · Tumudibandh, Kandhamal, Odisha
Traditional folk songs, dances, and stories are a good option to pass on to the next generation.
— Kachala Choudhary
You must preserve your culture for your future generations, because people learn old games, dances, and songs.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Our culture's games, dances, songs, and festivals should be preserved. They should be kept so that our future generations can know about them.
— Priti majhi
Old traditions and customs, along with dance and music, Lorki songs, and Kajri Vajri, need to be preserved for future generations.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Our traditional language songs should be new/renewed. Today, we want to preserve our community's language, songs, and dances so that our children can learn about them.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
Our traditional language songs should be new/renewed. Today, we want to preserve our community's language, songs, and dances so that our children can learn about them.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
Our dance, songs, worship, festivals, conversations, games, and sports should be preserved for our coming generations to know.
— Priti majhi
Our culture, including games, dance, songs, and festivals, should be preserved. It should be kept so that our coming generations can know it.
— Priti majhi
Traditional dance and song culture must be transferred to the next generation because it can lead to the progress of society and the country.
— Bindhani Bibhuti · Tamando, Khordha, Odisha
Traditional folk dance and traditional song should be preserved.
— Kachala Choudhary
We should preserve our culture because cultural dances, songs, and musical instruments also serve as entertainment, and children too.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Kasdol, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
We should protect our tribe so that language, traditional knowledge, lifestyle, folk songs, and dances remain.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
The voices in this theme were gathered by these organisations through their community reports.
