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Scenario

How to support cultural resistance that risks individual consequences

My nephew keeps getting arrested for fishing in our traditional waters and I want to support him but I also worry about him throwing his life away for a symbolic gesture.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Acts of cultural sovereignty can require personal sacrifices that feel disproportionate to their symbolic impact, creating tension between principle and pragmatism.

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Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous seventh-generation thinking?”

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