"Grief is the persistence of love."

Patty Krawec

#BecomingKin #indigenous
#grief #love #nature

One of the books I checked out from the library is "Becoming Kin" by Patty Krawec. I've wanted to read it since it came out. I already feel this book will be impactful. On the first page of the introduction she writes:

"The ribbon skirt I've made for this evening is black with wide ribbons in the colors associated with the medicine wheel: red, black, white, and yellow. I have appliqued red maple leaves falling down the front of the skirt until they are covered by ribbons. I like the imagery of Canada being absorbed by Indigenous ideas. Later, during the gathering after the event, a couple of women will come to speak with me. They will comment that the leaves are upside down. A nation in distress flies their flag upside down, I will tell them. And Canada, like the United States, is a nation in distress."

#BecomingKin

"When we talk about land back, we’re not talking about laying claim to land the way that the U.S. might say, or the way that other countries might say, of claiming ownership, it’s claiming relationship, and it’s claiming a relationship that’s reciprocal."

- Patty Krawec, author #BecomingKin @daanis

Episode of “Movement Memos" with host Kelly Hayes

https://truthout.org/audio/we-can-survive-together-by-becoming-kin/

#WaterThoughts #BookReview #Bookstodon

#HighlyRecommend:

#BecomingKin: An #IndigenousCall to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future, by #PattyKrawec.

From the book’s description: “The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. . . . Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better relatives to the land, to one another, and to Indigenous movements for solidarity?”

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/becoming-kin-an-indigenous-call-to-unforgetting-the-past-and-reimagining-our-future_patty-krawec/34866808/item/51861456/#edition=64061719&idiq=51861456

I found much of this book to be a pure meditation on what could be, and it invited me to envision a future where all life is included and all the Earth is respected. Krawec made me want it, and she made me think it is possible. And it had fascinating things to say about #water.

It may be hard, but we can do it.