Reflecting on the many ways that we can better nourish our spirits and minds, heal our hearts, and strengthen ourselves and our families, these are more than just resolutions. These are also daily prayers.
Consider the songs, the kinship, the lineal seed keepers, and ceremonies that guided Indigenous cosmologies, landscapes and people. Those sacred commitments left no person hungry or without medicine or without worth.
From the Bakken Oil fields and the plains of Standing Rock, down to the swamps and bayous of Louisiana, Indigenous people are still fighting the pipeline every step of the way.
When you see a group as subhuman, it’s easier to harm them. It’s easier to cast them off to the margins of society, to be colonized, brutalized, and silenced. This is the Indigenous experience.