Salaam, friends.
Mount Kinabalu is
sacred to the Dusun communities. Gayoh
Ngaran or Big Name, as the mountain is known to the Dusun, is our
final resting place.
In the old days, the
Dusun could hunt on the mountain and take rattan and other forest produce from
the foothills. Then the white men came. They wanted to protect the mountain
they said. Because everybody recognized that the mountain was sacred to the
Dusun, the British officers came, along with the local authorities, and talked
with the Dusun Elders from the villages on the foothills of the mountain.
