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When mixed families have different views on indigenous spiritual education

My teenage nephew keeps asking about our family's medicine ways but his mom is white and thinks it's all superstition, and I'm caught between respecting her parenting and honoring our bloodline.

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Interracial relationships can create conflicts over how to handle indigenous spiritual transmission to children.

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Worth thinking about

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

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