our ancestral lineage

Growing up in the Orient, we learn to incorporate the dead among the living. Beliefs of reincarnation and ancestral spirit guidance are all part and parcel of growing up Asian.

Moving west we find shared traditions among indigenous tribes and their practices as well. It brings us comfort and brings us comfort as we make our home here now.

Honoring our Spirits
 YES! comic and illustration by Jen Luxton

As immigrants we rest easy among the diverse traditions - local and imp[a/o]rted - that keep our ancestors and dead loved ones close and remembered fondly.

We can expand our ancestral connections to include realms beyond our bloodlines - to strengthen lineages by including all of life - on this plane and in the spirit world.

Past, current, and future - are all connected. We are all in this together - interwoven.

staking out territory

History is largely written by the winners. When realities are told only in part or from a limited presentation it can skew our history and misdirect what we believe. Later much more time and resources are spent trying to piece together the facts and present them with more balance.

After five years of negotiations, government officials presented this map,
showing the boundary lines between the British colonies and
the country of the Six Nations and the Southern Indians,
to the King of England, in 1768. NATIONAL ARCHIVES UK

This has been made almost impossible with lives lost and inaccuracies perpetuated to "clean up" our past. Improvement can be relative as well. Have we really come so far from those days and what ruled us then?