Aboriginal Rights

» woorama - Falling Angels

ah, scott, you don't even know how close you are to being able to recover your indigeneity! owl is an important person for me - she always points me towards what is important, so i'm assuming that working thru this with you is important in some way. so here goes.

first of all - we need to stop equating "white" skin with non-indigenousness. i can't stress this enough. it was only 1000 years ago your welsh ancestors "lost" indigeneity as you say - so this myth of "whiteness" is just irrelevant. check through the articles on this site - there are dozens of pieces on indigenous peoples with light skin tones. soon i will write one about the nemadi of the sahara - blue-eyed, light-skinned hunter gatherers who are oppressed by a regime run by dark skinned peoples... we there is too much diversity of experience out there for us to continue with this "black vs white" mythology. lack of melanin is no barrier to your indigeneity.

the barrier is the world's collective willingness to support a false standard of living in the west. we need to stop enjoying or aspiring to this false standard. the world cannot keep giving what is being taken - time to lower our standard of living and increase our quality of life. this means a shift away from individualism, and a leap towards the communal.

your experiences, your echoes of indigeneity you are having - these are not the real deal, but a call for you. you are being called to recover, rediscover... you need to get your arse to wales - your indigenous language is still being spoken there, and your ancestors in many places are still living within the land in traditional ways. they honour the old lines of power, and there are even some old men who still carry the oral history texts from thousands of years ago, right there in their heads. for a pint some of them will sing/tell these songlines for you (songlines is what we call them here in australia - i don't know what the welsh call them). anyway, i believe some welsh indigenous people even have gained native title on traditional lands now. you have indigneous ancestors calling you bro - move out of that concrete jungle for a while and seek them. go burn some peat and spend some time in places that start with "ll". at the moment, these echoes you are experiencing are "private" meaning individual, meaning disconnected, meaning ultimately unhealthy and destructive. you need to go to wales, learn your language, seek out those old fellas and learn the stories. learn the land. that's where your spirit comes from - it will go back there one way or another... it's trying to get back there now. if you don't take it there soon, it might decide to leave your body and go on its own. then where will you be. time to go home bro.

-- posted by woorama