My sister and I are trying to learn traditional Cherokee healing songs from our elder aunt, but she's becoming frustrated with how we keep forgetting or mispronouncing things, and we're caught between wanting to preserve this knowledge and feeling like we're failing at something that should be in our blood.
More people experience this than they realize.
The transmission of sacred knowledge becomes fraught when expectation meets the reality of cultural distance across generations.
“Where Are You with Indigenous healing traditions — Americas and Pacific?”
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