02/07/2022
Indigenous people All Around The Earth have respect for all beings, intrinsically so, and this relationship is represented naturally within Indigenous languages, with words and concepts that convey caring, healing, growing, nurturing... ; existing in stark contrast are the colonizers, and their cultures and language, now spread "All Across The Globe" including words, memes, phrases, and semantic devices and images that privilege violent, often one-way communications bent on objectifying living beings, homogenizing people and landscapes, and subjugating anything that has a spirit of its own.
Indigenous languages are now islands in a sea of neo-colonial media domination, a sea full of cooptation devices that routinely sieze, parasitically or for other insidious purposes, indigeneity out of context trying to corrupt it and make it an object of the never quenching dominion. We know this is not at all figurative, but the reality, as Indigenous are kidnapped, murdered, genocided. To oppose this malevolence, to help these islands, WE NEED TO CREATE SPACE for indigenity, including the languages of healing, of communing, of relationships—the original non-violent communications that still exist along with original peoples that have carried them into the present. The languages and the ways of living the Indigenous exist in and express have been under siege by the oppressive super-structure for so long, and WE NEED TO CREATE TIME to let these languages articulate to our ears and eyes ideas, times, ways that have almost been pushed out of the realm of believability. For the most of us not fluent in original communications of nonviolence, we can listen, and learn, and remember it's not too late to grow.
In 2 weeks, February 21, is not the one day alone to recognize Indigenous Languages and their importance, but it is one day to highlight that they exist and need more space, and more time than just a day, a week, or a month.
Xwat Anushiik
(Great Thanks, in Munsee language family of this stolen land we dwell on)
