Indigenous grief ceremonies

Indigenous mourning practices around the world share a recognition that grief requires ceremony — structured time outside ordinary time, participation of community, engagement with the more-than-human world, and attention to what the deceased is still owed by the living. These practices are as varied as the cultures that hold them, and they carry accumulated wisdom about what mourning actually needs that newer traditions are increasingly beginning to recover. This domain examines several with the respect and specificity they deserve.

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