Decolonization
If you’ve listened before you may know I am a White person and my spouse is Indigenous. This summer we went to several powwows and Indigenous events in New England. At the Pocumtuck Homelands Festival in Massachusetts we had the privilege of hearing Grandmother Carole Bubar-Bledgett speak. Grandmother Carole was in the middle of a month-long walk along the Connecticut River – although she calls it the Quinetucket River. This is the river’s original name, a Pequot word meaning Long Tidal River. Every year Grandmother Carole is called to walk the length of a major North American waterway. She walks 13-18 miles a day, and performs ceremonies to renew the energies of the water and the finned, winged and 4-legged creature that rely on it. She also teaches classes and…