I’m taking a free online course from Johns Hopkins University, Ongoing U.S. Settler Colonialism & Native Peoples Teach-Out. This article is required reading: Dreaming of Indigenous Futures in which Yes Magazine asked three indigenous artists for their dreams for the future. Mer Young says:

An Indigenous future is a future that once was before colonization. It is one where we look toward the East and bring anew as the Sun does. Where the deer come to us and eat out of our hands and guide us. We honor them. My wish is for all Land to be returned back into Native hands. One who knows and has a relationship with the land, in order for it to be restored and maintained for the sake of our future.

I am lifting up this voice.