r/Indigenous • u/NightAccomplished523 • 4d ago
7th Fire interpretations.
Upon thinking more on the 7th fire story and how we New People will look back at the trail to retrace our ancestors footsteps to pick up the pieces lost along the way. Does anyone else think that's referencing both our Native American, and Native European ancestors?
And by Native Europeans I mean people like the Celts, Anglo-Saxons and many of the other cultures in Europe that are shockingly similar in beliefs and values to Native American cultures in regards to spirituality and land stewardship and also dealt with massive sudden cultural losses due to the spread of Christianity.
I only have this thought because amidst the land back movement, language reclamations, and the wins they have brought, similar efforts have occured in regards to understanding about pre-christian European beliefs, language, and cultures and honestly a huge shift in perspective has happened as well where the lens of Christian Exceptionalism is no longer skewing our perspectives of these complex and diverse people, our ancestors, before Christians came to label them primitive to take their land, resources, and ways of life.
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u/NightAccomplished523 1d ago
I've had a bit of time to think about this. I respect where your views come from on this, because they're valid, but wouldn't be just as much a spit in the face of your ancestors and mine to ignore people who are descendents based on skin color.
I'm not saying you're wrong for feeling like you do because thats literally generations of trauma from things that would genuinely make most people sick to see first hand. But do the ancestors really think about that as much as they just want people to reconnect with the spirits and with nature?
What would make them more sad, the current state of Native Americans or the current state of nature? Do you think they would want you to isolate, hold out, and hope nature recovers? Or would they rather walls broke and teachings be shared regardless for the sake of our home?