Who owns it?
I think we have to allow for emerging identities. That's basically my thread. Traditionalists (the op) are important and necessary because they hold onto important knowledge.
But diaspora and urban Indigenous inevitably means emerging identity with combined medicine.
I was speaking to pan-Indigeneity. Authentic voices are important.
— Jamie Groat (@jamiegroat) January 19, 2021
Who owns it?
It is food and medicine and ceremony.
Who owns it?
We do not exist as we did thousands of years ago. We also have developed over centuries of hybridization and selecting for traits. We continue to develop and right now a new people is emerging. The Anishnaabe aren't the only ones with this prophecy btw.
And what even are our medicines? What medicines only belong to us.
This idea that Nish medicines are only for Nish ppl.
nope
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