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Each descendant of the First Peoples has their own unique way of expressing and sharing their cultural connection.
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A child is not born into obedience. They arrive wild and unshaped, belonging first to the wind, the earth, and the pulse of creation itself. Before they know words for what they feel, they are feeling, pure, immediate, unguarded. Their honesty unsettles us because it mirrors what we once were, before we learned to trade […]
The word tokenism is often spoken with hesitation, as though any attempt to acknowledge or include First Nations peoples might run the risk of falling into that category. The fear of appearing tokenistic can stop well-meaning ideas before they ever take shape. But perhaps the more important question is: what distinguishes tokenism from true inclusion?
We carry more than we realise. In the quiet of our bones, in the rhythm of our hearts,we hold generations upon generations of knowledge and experience.We are walking archives, living, breathing USB sticksof everything our people have seen, felt, learned, and survived. We may not know the names of those who came before us,or the […]