The |Xam Bushmen lived in central South Africa for thousands of years before the coming of the European settlers. They had a profound connection to nature, from which we can still learn what we are meant to be as human beings. The |Xam were story-tellers, cave-painters, rain-makers. They were relentlessly murdered by the settlers, and became extinct after a genocide lasting several hundred years.
Genocide left behind fragmented communities torn from their land, their history, and their language, like plants severed from their roots. They became vulnerable to alcoholism, that has persisted for generations.
