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Project team members Dr. Sharon Gabie and Mr. Leonard Gewers attended the 2026 annual Nama Cultural Festival in Keetmanshoop, Namibia held 28\u201331 May. Dr. Sharon Gabie travelled to the Festival in her capacity as a Consultant for the non-profit organization Cultural Survival (https:\/\/www.culturalsurvival.org\/), which advocates for Indigenous People’s rights globally. Dr. Gabie assisted with an extended workshop on community radio for Nama and other Indigenous communities. Mr. Leonard Gewers conducted meetings, interviews, and audio-visual recordings at the Festival, and made new contacts with Nama musicians and artists eager to contribute to this project’s Archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still from video of Nama Stap dance on the festival grounds. A Nama elder alerted Dr. Gabie to the tracks in the sand, saying that is what the ground should look like after a Nama lady dances since they do not lift their feet. Video by Dr. Sharon Gabie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Project team members Dr. Sharon Gabie and Mr. Leonard Gewers attended the 2026 annual Nama Cultural Festival in Keetmanshoop, Namibia held 28\u201331 May. Dr. Sharon Gabie travelled to the Festival in her capacity as a Consultant for the non-profit organization Cultural Survival (https:\/\/www.culturalsurvival.org\/), which advocates for Indigenous People’s rights globally. Dr. Gabie assisted with an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}