Oral traditions definition

Oral traditions means that body of knowledge of the indigenous people of the Marshall Islands about their past, including their beliefs, traditional practices (including traditional medicine and medical practices), skills, environment, and their spiritual world, which has been handed down, primarily in spoken form, from generation to generation;

Examples of Oral traditions in a sentence

• Oral traditions such as tales, folk-songs, especially “Soong Co” folk-song are common.

• Oral traditions with respect to the treaty making process indicate that some Indigenous leaders understood the land transfer to be exclusively directed at agriculture.19 Whether these ancestors of today’s Indigenous peoples understood the transfer to extend only “to the depth of a plow”,20 and what that could mean for subsequent questions of Aboriginal title in the territories covered by numbered treaties, are important questions for which there is competing evidence.

• Oral traditions have allowed stories and legends to survive for hundreds of years, and thus how thesestories are told is integral to the perpetuation of Indigenous cultures.

• Research’s April 7, 2015 Perspective:http://www.eresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/EIL_040715-B.pdf.

• Oral traditions recount the frequent stranding of whales on the beaches of Onetahua.

• Oral traditions are, in fact, non-written stories passed down from one generation to another, and kept alive in the memories of a people.

• Oral traditions have thus characterized the transmission of knowledge from parent to off-spring.

• Oral traditions have maintained the sea navigation skills and astronomy that asserted Tonga’s maritime chiefdom for over 2000 year [1] .

• Oral traditions in the Manu’a Islands refer to leaders of islands to the west (Fiji, Samoa, etc.) visiting on sometimes hostile missions.

• Oral traditions naturally elevate listening skills, and therefore the importance of both storyteller and listener.