Consciousness & Spirituality, Story-Telling & Narrative

Contextualising Indigenous Languages for Troubled Times

KINSHIP: An Online Course Talk with Tiokasin Ghosthorse

For most of human existence, humanity has been on the path of “original instructions”, but in the past few centuries, decades and now years, humanity is Earth-distancing with a language of lack and deficit, as opposed to abundance. For many of us who are beginning to awaken, it is important for us to be humble and respectful in understanding that we are not discovering anything new. We are returning to the continuum with cognisance anchored in Indigenous consciousness… the Indigeneity within all of us. Today nearly all of us are disconnected from the Indigenous Way. Thus we are disconnected from our hearts and perceive primarily through the mind. Our thinking is therefore fragmented and operates as separate from others and Earth, and often seeks to extract from the world and others for our own benefit. What can the language of kinship teach us about giving back, about reciprocity, and about being a good relative in these times of fatal estrangement from both our own lives, and the more-than human world?