Native people smuggled our ceremonies thru time, hid them under our hearts and carried them thru “Christian” indoctrination, beatings, violence, spiritual warfare and assault on all levels, for hundreds of years. We hid our languages under our tongues, and ancestors carried those treasures across - ThreadSky

indigenia.bsky.social • 27 days ago

Native people smuggled our ceremonies thru time, hid them under our hearts and carried them thru “Christian” indoctrination, beatings, violence, spiritual warfare and assault on all levels, for hundreds of years. We hid our languages under our tongues, and ancestors carried those treasures across

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cashewsnpeanuts.bsky.social•27 days ago

Having this drop into my inbox today made my heart happy. Thank you 🙏

dandantransient.bsky.social•27 days ago

We owe our ancestors and those "difficult" aunties and uncles so much for their refusal to let things go

indigenia.bsky.social•27 days ago

generations, as gifts of love for our babies, because they knew we’d need them for the future. They looked in our eyes and felt love stronger than their hurt, and I can’t think of a better way to honor that, than to hand it to my own children. I know & feel what they saw when they looked at us

indigenia.bsky.social•27 days ago

because I feel it when I look at my own children too.
Those things survived at GREAT cost to those who carried them, mind you. There are no rose colored glasses here. Much of what we knew did NOT make it across; but I feel that just makes traditional knowledge systems that much more precious.

indigenia.bsky.social•27 days ago

I gather my comfort, strength, and resolve from those teachings in these times. I’ll never be able to repay the debt of gratitude I have to ancestors, right up to my own parents, for what they brought to me. Understandings of community, kinship, responsibility, and a sense of a world that exists

indigenia.bsky.social•27 days ago

outside the one that is falling apart now is so damn necessary, in order for us to maintain hope, and stay determined. It’s not all bad, beloveds. All this knowledge was sewn by love, and therefore, love remains. Take heart.

john-cory.bsky.social•27 days ago

reminds me of the title of the native nations poetry anthology - When The Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through -- edited by Joy Harjo -

reallydebs.bsky.social•27 days ago

I for one am so thankful for what did manage to survive and especially that Indigenous are willing to share with us non-Indigenous. Thank you.

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