What does it mean to be indigenous?

Susitna sunset-- 10:38 pm, 7.31.15, Anchorage, Ak
Susitna sunset– 10:38 pm, 7.31.15, Anchorage, Ak

The core of indigeneity is to be actually from a place, to be of a place, to belong to a place. It is for one’s identity to draw from deep relationships to community, ancestors, plants, animals, and the land. It is to be embedded and inseparable, not just as a concept, but as an ongoing experience lived through ceremonies, social relationships, and technologies of giving and receiving to the other beings of nature, both visible and unseen. It is to be at home again, not in a home-as-box, but at home in the world.

Charles Eisenstein

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