working at the intersections of land, story, and human development
who I am: organizer, writer, and tarot reader
Veins of the Earth
Restoring our relationship to water is an important part of the decolonial project, a collaborator in knowing who we are. Rosemary Georgeson (Sahtu Dene and Coast Salish) articulates this beautifully in the paper, We Have Stories–Five generations of Indigenous women in water: I am more connected now to Sar-Augh-Ta-Naogh and…
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Osage is the name of a tribal Nation and it’s pronounced WahZhaZhe
Carrying the ancestral trauma of Indigenous removal is not a pain I would wish on anyone. There is a power and a wholeness and a purpose in love of place that severed causes a cascade of rootlessness, fracture, lack of meaning across generations that can be hard for the bearer…
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Following Rivers
I didn’t have a particular objective in visiting Osage sacred sites this month. It came about by being next door in Oklahoma for a while, closer than I’ve been in my life spent mostly in California. The last couple years our Historic Preservation Office hasn’t been able to organize sacred…
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