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All My Relations Podcast

All My Loving Relations

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

Native, Documentary, Pop Culture, Contemporary Native American Culture, Relationships, Society, Indigenous, Native American, Society & Culture

4.93.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Love is something we all need, cherish, and desire in our lives. As Indigenous people we have always known that being in good relation with people, creatures, and the land is integral to wellbeing. Western science is just catching up to discover what we have known for time immemorial. Indeed, love and relationships are arguably the most important things in life. As settler colonial trauma and violence such as boarding schools have damaged our ability to love we know it is important to discuss...

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0:00.0

My father was a very loving man.

0:09.0

And sitting here I cannot really remember his ever saying to me, I love you.

0:19.8

But I can certainly recall that my mother never ever said, what's in her life to me that

0:27.8

she loved me knowing that each were products of the United States federal boarding school

0:39.0

system.

0:40.0

Then I can understand it.

0:47.4

I've been thinking how do we have this conversation about what Indigenous love is?

0:54.6

What does it mean to be in love?

0:58.4

And I recently came across this TED talk which has millions of views on YouTube.

1:03.7

It's by Robert Waldinger.

1:07.6

He's a white guy.

1:08.9

And there's a point of clarification.

1:13.0

I just want to say that much.

1:15.2

But it's called what makes a good life lessons from the longest study on happiness.

1:19.6

And I want to play a few of those clips for you.

1:22.1

Listen in.

1:23.9

What keeps us healthy and happy as we go through life?

1:29.5

If you were going to invest now in your future best self, where would you put your time

1:35.8

and your energy?

1:38.2

We're constantly told to lean in to work, to push harder and achieve more.

1:46.5

We're given the impression that these are the things that we need to go after in order

1:50.2

to have a good life.

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