This section offers resources for people socially categorized as “white,” and Euro-descendant Americans in particular, called to explore both the painful legacy of “whiteness” and the healing balm of remembering our own ancient roots. By exploring the ways of our earth-honoring ancestors, we can connect to sources of native wisdom, heal cultural trauma, and contribute to the imperative project of humans returning to conversation and co-creation with the natural world.
This is a small list, seeded in my own Celtic and Nordic lineages, and I know there is much more to add. If you know of resources that would be helpful to include, please suggest them here.
This section offers resources for people socially categorized as “white,” and Euro-descendant Americans in particular, called to explore both the painful legacy of “whiteness” and the healing balm of remembering our own ancient roots. (Note: some of these resources may also be of interest to BIPOC folks interested in anti-racist solidarity and coalition building.)
The long history of colonialism around the world is responsible for incredible trauma, and has disconnected countless generations of peoples from our ancestral homelands and traditions. For the humans of the world to regain our connection to ancient ways of knowing, those wounds must be acknowledged and healed.
As white-bodied people in the modern world we carry both the legacy of trauma enacted upon other humans by our ancestors, and the trauma of separation from our own traditional lands and lifeways.
We have an opportunity to educate ourselves about our histories, confront the dark legacies of the past, and do our part to transform them in solidarity with current and future generations.
These resources are meant to support that journey. By exploring the ways of our own earth-honoring ancestors we can connect to sources of native wisdom, heal cultural and ancestral trauma, and contribute to the imperative project of humans returning to conversation and co-creation with the more-than-human world.
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This is a small list, seeded in my own Celtic and Nordic lineages, and I know there is much more to add. If you know of resources that would be helpful to include, please suggest them here.
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One of the things that most afflicts this country is that white people don't know who they are or where they come from.
One of the things that most afflicts this country is that white people don't know who they are or where they come from.