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“We shouldn’t deny the spiritual lineage we come from. Dismissing our religious heritage is as ignorant as dismissing our ancestral heritage. It’s in the DNA, not just the physical DNA but the energetic, mental, and spiritual DNA.”

Book:Geboor: Spiritual Fiction

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“Sometimes we don't get to understand things. People. We just got to try to be better than the things that spit us out. I don't know why my momma like she is, but I love her and got to keep on with it. I can't make the people I love no different. I can't change the past. All I can do is love myself and my kids enough to move forward. Love my people where they is and fight like hell not to let nobody else mistakes—nobody else pain—break me ever again.”

Family Intergenerational Trauma

Book:Perish

Source: Perish

“My grandmother, Vivian, and her siblings were the first Native American children in the Port Angeles school system. It was not an easy integration. They were bullied and beaten daily by the other children, having stones and slurs hurled at them with no one stepping in. When Lillian went to the White principal about this, it was clear he didn't see it as severe. I wonder if he dared to utter the words "kids will be kids" in front of an angry Bear Mother trying to protect her cubs. When he finally agreed to act, his generous solution was to release the siblings ten minutes earlier than everyone else, to give them a head start on their run home. It didn't always work.”

Kids Race Family Racism Native Bullying Integration Indigenous

Book:Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

Source: Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

“In the beginning, it felt like coming home, even though I'd never lived there and rarely visited. My family members were welcoming, and the water and forest calmed the fluttering darkness deep within me.”

Family Native Coming Home Indigenous Tribal Land

Book:Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

Source: Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

“We drove for three days into the mountains in a car that struggled to go uphill. Still, we made it and I was finally back in my tribal homeland. In the beginning, it felt like coming home, even though I'd never lived there and rarely visited. My family members were welcoming, and the water and forest calmed the fluttering darkness deep within me.”

Family Travel Native Coming Home Indigenous Homeland Tribal Homeland Tribal Land

Book:Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

Source: Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

“The anxiety in me grew, as this place that had always felt like home in my mind began to shed the rose-colored visions I had coated it in. It wasn't quite right. I was welcomed by many, but I didn't belong. It wasn't quite home anymore.”

Family Native Belonging Indigenous Homeland Rose Colored Glasses Tribal Homeland Tribal Land

Book:Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

Source: Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

“I wake up, I feel the inescapable oppression of the sunlight pouring through my bedroom window, and I am struck by the fact that I am alone. And that everyone is alone. And that everything I understood seven hours ago has already changed, and that I have to learn everything again.”

Life Lessons Loniliness

Book:Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

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