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How to navigate indigenous identity when raised outside the culture

I'm half Lakota but raised in the city and when I finally went to ceremony last year I felt like a fraud, like everyone could see I didn't belong there even though something in my bones recognized the songs.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The disconnection from ancestral ways creates a deep longing coupled with shame about one's authenticity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous spiritualities — North America?”

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