Tejiendo Vida, Sabiduría y Conocimientos, para la Pervivencia Como Pueblo Nasa, en el Resguardo Indígena de Nega Çxhab: “Tejer el Pensamiento de Todos Como El de Uno Solo, es el Espíritu del Futuro”

Abstract

Nasa indigenous people is a process that extends from before birth to after sowing and spiritual encounter. This is how the elders tell it through a dialogue around the tulpa (stove) to their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. This conception is perhaps not well understood by the Western world because the ways of educating, feeling, thinking, visioning are inherited by our creative parents UMA and TAY, our sister A'TE (Moon), our brother SEK (sun), our guardians EEKATE (thunder), and A' (star). In which mother UMA teaches weaving and our father TAY gives us wisdom through Nasa Yuwe (native language of the Nasas). In the tulpa the family gathers to tell stories, give advice, it is the space where the elders transmit knowledge from generation to generation. Grandpa Fire welcomes with wisdom and joy every word expressed in his maternal womb, guides the path to follow, provides the appropriate space for the family to strengthen itself, project itself without forgetting the past, the living force of our roots. Through the planting of the umbilical cord (ancestral practice) around the tulpa, we enter into connection with our mama kiwe (mother earth). This is where the older brothers (spiritual beings) indicate the rules of coexistence or spiritual laws for the wet. fizenxi (good living). Each person is born with a gift (nes) or several gifts, according to the spirit that accompanies them. A'TE (Moon) is the counselor of time, she is the one who knows all the life processes of the children, with her wisdom she indicates the times of sowing, harvest, rest, learning and rituality. In consideration of what was stated above about the connotation of indigenous education and the importance of strengthening and enhancing our culture for survival in time and space, significant experiences that have allowed the reflection of pedagogical practice in the territory are taken up below. and at the same time the reorientation of the fabrics of wisdom and knowledge (curriculum) to territorial realities. The recent pandemic (COVID-19) was a scenario that opened the possibility of exploring new learning scenarios, of learning without school, of knowing the reality of families, of talking again around the tulpa, of producing educational material such as booklets and radio programs whose contents focused on practices and knowledge for the care of life and territorial prevention.