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Threads of Wisdom: Elders, Speakers, and Communities
Invitation: These people and places carry songs, scars, and teachings from specific lands and long lineages. Let your clicking be a bow, not a grab.
This is a living document. It will continue to grow and evolve as new threads are woven, new voices emerge, and deeper layers of remembrance are uncovered. With your support, we hope to nurture and expand this weaving—tending it together with care and curiosity.
- Atarangi Murupaenga — Māori Healer, Te Rarawa iwi, Ahipara, Aotearoa (New Zealand)
- Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq — Kalaallit, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
- Báyò Akómoláfé — Yoruba descent, Nigeria / Global South
- Clayson & Jeneda Benally (Sihasin) — Diné Bikéyah, Arizona, USA
- Chief Na’Mox (John Ridsdale) — Gidimt’en Clan, Wet’suwet’en Tsayu (Beaver Clan), British Columbia, Canada
- Diana & Mark Kopua (Te Kurahuna / Mahi a Tua) — Rongowhakaata, Tairāwhiti, Aotearoa (New Zealand)
- Dr. Judy Atkinson (we al-li) — Jiman and Bundjalung, New South Wales, Australia
- Dr. Patricia June Vickers (Raven’s Call Canada) — Tsimshian, Haida, Heiltsuk, British Columbia, Canada
- Freddie Johnson & Dave Belleau (Esketemc Recovery House) — Esk’etemcúl’cw, Secwepemc Territory, Canada
- Iya Affo — Intergenerational trauma educator, Arizona, USA
- James McGuire (Haida Gwaii Museum) — Haida Nation, Haida Gwaii, Canada
- Little Singer Community School — Diné Bikéyah, Navajo Nation, Arizona, USA
- Obafemi Fayemi Epega (Obafemi Institute) — Chief Oluwo, Yoruba Ifá lineage, USA / Nigeria
- Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining) — Diné and Lakota, Taos, New Mexico, USA
- Roy Henry Vickers — Tsimshian, Haida, Heiltsuk, British Columbia, Canada
- Samwel Nangiria (Oltoilo le Maa) — Maa Nation, Loita section, Tanzania
- Alnoor Ladha & Lynn Murphy (Transition Resource Circle) — Global / Decolonial Movement Educators
- Amelia Rose Barlow — Land and memory educator, USA
- Antonia Afraid of Bear-Cook & Thomas Kanatakeniate Cook — Oglala Lakota & Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk), Turtle Island
- Awhitia Mihaere — Māori Healer, Ngāti Kahungunu, Aotearoa (New Zealand)
- Baratunde Thurston — American writer, comedian, and commentator, California, USA
- Cassandra Ferrera — Ethical land transitionist, California, USA
- Charlene Eigen Vasquez (Confederation of Ohlone People) & Deep Medicine Circle — Rumsen Ohlone, California, Turtle Island
- Daniel Foor (Ancestral Medicine) — European descent, animist lineage repair, USA / Spain
- Darcia Narvaez — Neurobiologist of relational development, USA
- Diane Longboat (Soul of the Mother) — Mohawk, Turtle Clan, Six Nations, Canada
- Dohee Lee — Jeju shamanic lineage, Korea / California, USA
- Donald “Del” Laverdure & Kristen Burges (Arrow Creek Wellness Foundation) — Apsáalooke (Crow), Montana, Turtle Island
- Eriel Tchekwie Deranger (Indigenous Climate Action) — Denesuline (Chipewyan), Canada
- Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa)
- Francis Weller — Grief ritualist, California, USA
- Gabor Maté — Trauma specialist, Canada
- Joe Williams — Mental health advocate, Wiradjuri/Wolgalu, NSW, Australia
- Jungwon Kim — Community organizer, Korea / USA
- Katsi Cook (Spirit Aligned Leadership Program) — Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, Turtle Island
- Linda Thai — Lao trauma educator, Vietnam/Australia/USA
- Lyla June Johnston — Diné and European descent, New Mexico, Turtle Island
- Mays Imad — Iraqi refugee and trauma-informed pedagogue, USA
- Nipun Mehta (ServiceSpace) — Jain lineage, India / California
- Osprey Orielle Lake (WECAN) — USA-based ecofeminist with global Indigenous alliances
- Patty Krawec — Anishinaabe and Ukrainian descent, Canada. Patty’s Blog (Ojibwe stories about how to live)
- Rachel Knight — Land rematriation legal activist, USA
- Rae Abileah — Jewish clergy / Climate justice activist, USA
- Richard Schwartz (IFS Institute) — Founder of Internal Family Systems, USA
- Ruby Gibson (Freedom Lodge) — Lakota descent, South Dakota, Turtle Island
- Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen (Nordic Animism) — Denmark
- Sarah Bradley (Land Justice Futures) — Director of Public Engagement, USA
- Sarah Nahar — Mennonite descent, Onondaga & Haudenosaunee lands, USA
- Serene Thin Elk (Boarding School Healing Coalition) — Ihanktonwan Dakota, Turtle Island
- Sophie Strand — Storyteller, poetic mystic, USA
- Susan Raffo — Disability & healing justice, USA
- Thomas Hübl — Mystic and trauma integrator, Germany / Israel
- Tina Ngata — Ngāti Porou, Aotearoa (New Zealand)
- Uncle Paul Gordon (Djiriba Waagura) — Ngemba, Barkindji, Muruwarri (Australia)
- Yemi Penn — Yoruba, futurist & engineer of trauma, Australia / Nigeria / UK
Intergenerational Trauma, Healing & Lineage Reconnection
Invitation: This is not a project of self-improvement. This is a journey of deep remembering, grieving, and composting—especially for those of European descent feeling the stirrings of ancestral disconnection.
“That ache is not guilt—it’s grief. It’s longing. It’s remembering.”
This is not about fixing history. It is about facing it, metabolizing it, and reweaving relational threads. These resources do not offer answers, but openings.
- 3,100+ Indigenous Students Died at U.S. “Boarding Schools” — with Dana Hedgpeth
- Healing Colonial Wounds — Pitt Rivers Museum participates in a Maasai healing ceremony
- Healing Historical Trauma with Linda Thai
- Indigenous Knowledge is a Climate Solution: Earthen Lodge in Ponca, Oklahoma with Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation)
- Indigenous Worldview Can Preserve Our Existence
- Living Cultures: Reconnecting with Our Ancestors — Maasai efforts to bring their ancestors home
- Ponca Tribe’s Fight to Protect the Rights of Nature — Story told by Casey Camp-Horinek
- Undammed — Amy Bowers Cordalis and the fight to free the Klamath River
- You Are Creation: Trauma Training 1, 2 & 3 — with Chief Beverly Cook
- Coming Home to the Cove — Audio story about CA Coastal Miwok stolen lands
- Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery — Uncovering the deep structure of colonization
- Language Keepers Podcast Series — From Emergence Magazine
- Medicine for the Resistance
- Ancestral Medicine – Daniel Foor
- Becoming a Good Relative – Hilary Giovale
- Becoming Kin – Patty Krawec
- Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Break the Cycle – Dr. Mariel Buqué
- The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
- The Continuum Concept – Jean Liedloff
- Decolonizing Therapy – Jennifer Mullan
- A Human Being Died That Night – Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
- Healing Trauma Through Family Constellations – Euphrasia (Efu) Joseph Nyaki’
- The Healing Wisdom of Africa – Malidoma Patrice Somé
- Hospicing Modernity – Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
- Ideas to Postpone the End of the World – Ailton Krenak
- In the Absence of the Ordinary – Francis Weller
- It Didn’t Start with You – Mark Wolynn
- The Land in Our Bones – Layla K. Feghali
- Life on Planet Earth – Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) & Darcia Narváez
- My Body, My Earth – Ruby Gibson
- My Grandmother’s Hands – Resmaa Menakem
- The Myth of Normal – Gabor Maté & Daniel Maté
- Outgrowing Modernity – Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome – Dr. Joy Angela DeGruy (2005 / 2017)
- Restoring the Kinship Worldview – Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) & Darcia Narvaez
- Sand Talk – Tyson Yunkaporta
- The Story is in Our Bones – Osprey Orielle Lake
- Truth Demands – Abby Reyes
- Taíno: A Novel – José Barreiro
- Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines – Judy Atkinson
- Wounds Into Wisdom – Tirzah Firestone
- The Wild Edge of Sorrow – Francis Weller
- When No Thing Works – Norma Wong
- Why Indigenous Literatures Matter – Daniel Heath Justice
- Worlds within Us – edited by Katsi Cook
- Changing the Narrative about Native Americans — A Guide for Allies (PDF)
- Indigenous Ally Toolkit (PDF)
- Indigenous Sacredness, Christendom and the Doctrine of Discovery
- Native American Deaths — Burial Sites & Boarding Schools
- Roots Deeper Than Whiteness
- The Set-Up of Settler Colonialism
- Sexual Violence and The Doctrine of Discovery
- Tribal lands were stolen. What happens when those ancestral territories are returned?
- Violent experiences alter the genome in ways that persist for generations
- The Coalition for Outdoor Renaming and Education (CORE)
- Comrades Education
- Decolonizing Wealth Project
- Dinawans Connection
- Friendship House Association of American Indians
- Men of Pa’a
- The Motherhouse Starter Series
- The Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
- National Native Children’s Trauma Center
- RAD Network
- Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
- The Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery
Ways to Be a Good Relative & Walk in Accompaniment
To be a good relative is to move with humility, emotional sobriety, and relational maturity. It means tuning to impact over intent, and disinvesting from modernity’s fantasies of control.
To walk in accompaniment is not to fix or lead—but to walk beside. To listen more than speak. To take responsibility. To walk with TRRACCK:
Trust, Respect, Reciprocity, Accountability, Consent, Compassion, Kindness
Colonization is not just something of the past that we are healing from. It is actively continuing today. We each have a role to play in shifting out of the curse, and imagining ourselves into new, entangled, life-affirming ways of being.
- Learn about the Indigenous peoples of the land where you live
- Learn about your own lineage & begin where you are
- Donate to Indigenous-led organizations
- Pay Land Tax (e.g., Shumi) & support Land Back
- Support Indigenous governance and land initiatives
- Host a screening of The Eternal Song
- Watch our other films: Where Olive Trees Weep, Wisdom of Trauma, and more
- Explore Right Relationship resources
