The Ancestors Know You: Real Life Reconnection Stories

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

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

5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2021

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

We are so excited to talk about the very highly requested topic: reconnection. So many of our relatives grew up with varying levels of kinship systems, and it is so important to not blame oneself for little connection. After 500 years of colonization and attempted erasure via relocation, prohibiting traditions, and pushing assimilation, we have all felt the effects in differing and unique experiences.

Join us in a special, raw and vulnerable conversation about how Daniel French and another special surprise guest reconnected to their Indigenous communities. This conversation is powerfully important as reclaiming the connections that colonization has tried to keep broken for many generations is a very real experience for many Native folks.

Special thanks Thank you to Daniel French and Adrienne Keene for joining us today.

Thanks to the AMR team that worked on this episode: Teo Shantz, Dominick Joseph, Lindsey Hightower, Keoni Rodriguez.

Thank you to Art by Ciara for our amazing episode artwork.

Never forget that the ancestors know who you are.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, Matika here. I'm a photographer, a writer, a mom, and a relative, and I'm really
0:05.6	happy to be here with all of you today. Hey folks, Dr. Dr. Dazie here, Pivyshif, good day.
0:11.8	I am a professor at UCLA. I run the Data Warriors Lab. I'm a researcher, a relative, and a mama,
0:18.1	and it is so great to be back on another episode of All My Relations. Last year, right around this time,
0:24.2	we did a survey asking all of you what content you wanted to hear, and there was a resounding
0:30.4	request for content focused on reconnecting to ones, indigeneity, to community, and to reclaiming
0:36.5	the connections that colonization has tried to keep broken for so many generations, in some cases.
0:43.2	Totally. Learning what you guys wanted to hear really got us thinking because Matika and I were
0:48.4	both res girls, right? We are both born and raised in our communities. We maintain our community
0:54.2	connections and our kinship, you know, bonds and responsibilities. There's a lot of
1:00.4	words. There's a lot of responsibilities there too, you know, and it all good. So reconnecting for us,
1:06.8	right, has not been a part of our indigenous experience, but of course, we recognize that so many
1:12.0	folks were not raised in community, and some do not even know where to start, right? And so we
1:17.5	wanted to bring you the stories of two amazing indigenous people, one of whom you guys know very
1:22.4	well, and one of whom we know you will also totally love. And they take us on their journeys of
1:28.6	learning about who they are, learning to whom they belong, and how to go about making meaningful
1:34.4	connections as indigenous relatives in a society that has sought to destroy our kinship systems,
1:40.4	and in a society that has sought to assimilate us into, you know, essentially into white people.
1:58.3	Sorry.
2:00.3	All my relations.
2:11.8	All right, so we are really lucky to have two relatives actually on the pod today,
2:16.8	who are going to share their stories of reconnection. The first is Daniel French,
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