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When couples face choosing between financial security and Indigenous community obligations

My partner wants to move back to her home reservation where her family needs help, but I worry about leaving my job and the financial security we've built, and we're both feeling like the other doesn't understand what we'd be sacrificing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Geographic and economic mobility conflicts with ancestral place-based responsibilities, forcing choices between individual advancement and collective belonging.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous approaches to wealth and sharing?”

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