How Alaska Native Women Are Healing From Generations Of Trauma | [Our Fight To Survive, Pt. 3] | AJ+ 

Good for you for keeping your culture and traditions alive and passing them down today! 💪 My dad is native and my mom is white Irish. It was never a secret in my family about my dad's side and their indigenous heritage, but it just wasn't really discussed due to how it was frowned upon in the past and how my grandmother, great-grandmother, great great-grandmother, etc. had to try to either hide or avoid the cultural topics out of fear. My dad's side of the family actually changed their first names, altered their last names, and moved frequently across (mostly eastern and central) Canada in attempts to keep their families safe, together, And hidden from the government's agency who were forcing children into residential schools. I don't know how they did it, but for the most part, it worked to their advantage. Sadly, my grandmother died in silence when she had so much history and knowledge to share with us because of Canada's oppressive and dark colonial history. 😔 I took it upon myself to do the family research, building up our family tree as a gift for my dad. The things I discovered were incredible and priceless. I share every cultural tradition with my daughter and husband (who's Métis), we pick and make medicines together, we visit the reservation, we share our knowledge and history proudly, and continue to learn more every day. This cultural and traditional knowledge is precious and absolutely cannot be lost! As hard as the settlers tried to erase and assimilate us, they utterly failed. Making the land, the Great Creator, and our ancestors proud by passing on our knowledge is of utmost importance to me when it comes to my family, and especially my only daughter. 😊💕

That wasn’t your mom bc best believe she will hate you if you started to decolonize yourself. Whte ppl will never love natives why do you think they call them illegals in the USA why do you think their shoved in cramped cages

"hard corse" yes but not Christian in the true sense of the word. Nowhere did Christ push the idea of cramming a religion down people's throats. The evil people who ran the residence schools were CINO - Christian in Name Only. It is nice to see that indigenous Alaskans are bring back their culture.

Good don’t ever let your tradition die don’t let jealousy get in your way angel

It’s Great to learn about culture but don’t go to far in some aspects of paganism or the other way in colonialism Like letting your brothers have sex with your wife like the Eskimo. Or glorifying the white conquers a middle ground is needed.

My hope is one day your traditional customs and language is taught in out schools here in Australia... I cannot comprehend what your ancestors had to go through.. and still are going through.🖤🖤🖤

@@victoriacarpenter2657 I share your sentiments. The ancient traditions are so beautiful and the women are so gorgeous with their sacred ink

@@victoriacarpenter2657 for everyone can stole it .... Like everything elses... And keylee is australian why you say to her your tradition ?

You don't look like no Aboriginal to me

@@danieloshea3326 Well you should come to Queensland because you'd see a lot of Aboriginals that look like me...

Idt they care what you think

thanks-come visit bush -village Alaska or at least anchorage-like the Alaska heritage center, the anchorage museum-Smithsonian native collection wing and Fairbanks-museum of the north and morris Thompson native culture center.

Only indigenous ppl should do the customs I’m rlly tired of white washing our way of life

YES

People of color is a made up term. Arabs and Persians hate each other. Chinese, Koreans, and Filipinos hate the Japanese. Indians and Pakistanis don't like each other. Libyans are selling black African men as slaves in Libya, right now.

lets blame whitey and nobody said it's not ok to be white but you certainly seem to think it's not ok to be anything other than white

kimoy kalinago wtf is an ethnic? Non-white? How do we define tgis because caucasians arent all one people.

kimoy kalinago Substance? Poverty? Are you kidding? Third world sucks...

So, "whites " aren't ethnic? ×We are all ethnic, that means we have culture, traditions, values, that relate us to other people. Guess. u. "whiteys" ", don't have. Culture. or values representative of respect. for people of any color or origin. Its. sad to see sick answers to such. a beautiful. message, full of o love & commitment. Here. is to u, Kimoy Kalinago .🎉🎊🌟🌟🌟

23&me can connect you to relatives, it's pretty cool.

Cringe

So your inbred? Cool I guess 😂

@@khust2993 how is that cringe😐

White people smh..finds out they have 2% indigenous and discard all their white bloodline so they can be more in touch

They look Asian. Maoris look white nowadays.

@@kagar3465 - koretake tōu kōrero ... ēhara te tae anakē a te kiri me tē āhua no āhia ngā tohu tika mō tātou Ngāi Tāngata Whenua. Ko te whakapapa te mana ko te mana te mauri ora. Kāti au i kōnei. Kei runga te rahi ō Ngāi Māori ahakoa no whea ahakoa te āhua ... Kei raro tōu iti.

@@1Ma9iN8tive I'm sorry if I offended you. I was simply stating an observation. It was not my intention to demean your culture but polynesian people aren't saints either. So... 🤷

@@kagar3465 who said anything about saints? Your stupidity doesn’t offend as much as it reveals your ignorance So....

@@1Ma9iN8tive What are you so mad about? It's true though. There are no longer any pure polynesians. Most of you have a significant Caucasian admixture in your dna. Look at old photos of Maori people, they look like Micronesians. Now, almost all of them look hapa.

The lines all the way down were traditionally a young girl's first Indigenous markings symbolizing maturity (ie. successful training in ena and being capable of raising a family - these lines down the nose in conjunct with the chin depicted the skill and value a young woman / woman had. The more the chin lines, the more a man wanted her as a hunter / gatherer partner in Indigenous culture) and, while the young man's + markings were the mark of the first successful whale a young man killed also symbolizing maturity. ♥

Have you done it yet?

@@chenoa2227 I’m about to get mine soon!

سـلـيـمـان أحــمــد like arabs forced their religion in africa and south east asia

سـلـيـمـان أحــمــد its just white washing, true Christianity knows u don't have to change your unique culture. look at Oceania. Africa, , Europe, south and north america and Asia ( north/ south/ east and west) all have it along with their traditions. a lot of then do have aspects that correlate.

All People Are Equal you truly are a revolting disgusting human being. You make me sick to my stomach.

All People Are Equal no it's called you're a twisted human being who needs some serious mental help.

South East Asia???? You sure, it is the local ruler converted into Islam, just like Russian convert to orthodox

Are you sure Islam is native to Indonesian islands?

Glomo we still wearing traditional clotes in many ocation. A lot of woman wearing hijab, but not burqa. And we still speak in our etnic language in daily, and doing many traditional ceremony. We have more than 700 etnic and culture, and diferent from each other. And islam going to south east asia by a trader not imperialism. We embrace it coz we want to.

Indonesian natives were enslaved and banned from practicing traditional healing

Sea Prick when my mom broken her arm a years ago she using traditional healing. In my town there are traditional healer who always have a lot of patients. And that kind of traditional healer are averywhere in Indonesia.

Eeeeeeeh, I don't know about that. Indonesia has a lot of ethnicities who struggle to keep their traditions alive due to globalization and assimilating to mainstream Indonesian society...

Amen mean i believe it's not a christian thing

23& me can connect you to relatives you may not otherwise find. It's pretty cool.

@Charlotte Derichsweiler Your ancestors are from Mongolia, not anywhere in North America, nor greenland. You Yellow Inuit Mongols have no rights to claim yourself as Indigenous, nor native. Go back to mongolia.

Bless you, if only others could see this glimpse of the world through your eyes. We just want to be ourselves without judgement, stealing, killing, etc. But you can help, teach people to be as open-minded as you are. To appreciate but not steal or recreate and take credit for. Thank you for being a good human.

Gkid50 - Gaming & Tech Reviews how is trump being racist?

@Rogin wrong again buddy did you know every single European can trace their ancestry to 300 founder populations? do you understand the Indo European invasion theory? every European can also trace their ancestors to king Charlemagne Europeans are less genetically varied compared to Africans but Asians and Native Americans have the least genetic diversity. Africans are the most unrelated people groups on the planet.

Gkid50, as a native Alaskan, I want you to know with 100% certainty from me to you, President Trump isn't a racist. He's done more for natives in the USA than any other President. #WalkAway

They got it from Asia. It was practiced throughout North and south east asia. Any group of people who migrated from Asia from 8000 years ago carried it with them. The south western China people in Myanmar and nagaland people have women tattoo their chen too but is being banned by government.

@@st4r444 wow this pretty cool to know yea this tattoo reminds me a lot of Mori tattoos

@Camaq Edward Inuits are Mongol invaders, not indigenous. It is Liberals, and Marxist Anti-whites giving them yellow privilege, and referring them as Native-Alaskans, or Aboriginal Canadians.