“I thought of my mother, her life taken by a man who, if not a literal beast nonetheless, someone shaped by the shape of someone else's pain, who only knew to take that pain and try to give it to someone else, thinking it would take the pain away from himself.” Violence Against WomenIndigenous WomenRedress Project Book:White Horse Source: White Horse
“…before we are human beings, we are light. When we are light, we see everything. We see the past and we see the future. We see how everything will happen in our lives and we know what our purpose is. As light, we pick our parents before we are born. We pick them and everyone that comes into our lives. We pick our experiences and everything that happens to us. We know the path we pick will make us grow and contribute to who we are as human beings in order to live our purpose. Some individuals remember everything they knew as light. Most of us forget what our purpose is, and it makes our time on Earth a struggle until we find our way back to our purpose, if we ever do.” LightPurposeMeaningIndigenousIndigenous WisdomIndigenous Women Book:Calling My Spirit Back Source: Calling My Spirit Back