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When survival needs conflict with cultural purity expectations

I make pottery using my great-grandmother's techniques but I have to charge enough to pay rent and people say that's not authentic indigenous practice.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The demand for traditional authenticity can become another form of poverty imposed on indigenous people who must navigate multiple worlds simultaneously.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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