Hospitality and Visitors
The obligations of hosts to guests and guests to hosts.
Visitors must be properly welcomed, provided for, and protected. In return, they must respect the customs of their hosts, contribute what they can, and follow local protocols. This hospitality created networks of safe passage across the continent.
A guest in our country is under our protection and our Law.
Hospitality obligations created continent-wide networks of mutual aid.
Oral Tradition
Written about in
- What Aboriginal tradition says about kinship and sharing
A guest is fed, protected and brought under local Law, and in return follows local protocol. Networks of such obligations made long journeys across the continent possible.