Rites and Responsibilities: What Role for White Settlers in the Work for Indigenous Sovereignty?

<p>Three generations ago, my great-grandmother and great-grandfather fled a small village in Western Ukraine in hope of peace, prosperity, and a life free from oppression. They gave up their extended family, language, and traditions as they traveled across the world to settle in the eastern United States in an early twentieth-century steel town built on Lenni Lenape lands, long ago seized to make way for waves of European immigrants. Three generations are scarcely a blink in the eye of human history, yet the connection with my lineage feels almost irretrievable today. At that moment, I felt the profound loss of my cultural heritage and shame that my ancestors abandoned their responsibility to their people, land, and culture, leaving others to fight while becoming the oppressors on the other side of the globe.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/langscape-magazine/rites-and-responsibilities-what-role-for-white-settlers-in-the-work-for-indigenous-sovereignty-8da6c6b622d2"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>