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How geographic displacement affects traditional practice

My pottery honors my ancestors but I live in the city now and the clay here feels wrong under my hands

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical separation from ancestral lands disrupts the embodied relationship between maker and material.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous creative traditions?”

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