“These women hold within them some of the most creative solutions to the world’s most complex problems.”
, SALP program director and member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe, says the nature of the Legacy Leader and Future Legacy Leader pairing best maintains Native culture. “Intergenerational knowledge is best transferred intentionally.
“I am grateful for this opportunity to share my knowledge with my younger relative, Jessie Taken Alive-Rencountre from Standing Rock,” said one SALP participant, Norma Rendon. “Both of Jessie’s parents died from COVID-19, and I worked closely with them. I am carrying out my responsibilities to teach Jessie, and she will teach her daughters and other young women. This intergenerational leadership fellowship is exactly what we need.
This intentional act of storytelling dismantles Western individualist ideologies by pointing out how Indigenous peoples “always lived within“The way the Western world attempts to position [elements of life] on an individual level rather than approaching the family or contemporary reality … ignores the history of colonization.”
While American narratives attempt to erase or mitigate the extent of the violence Western society has inflicted upon Indigenous peoples, programs like SALP exist to memorialize this pain so the U.S. can begin to address and repair centuries of damage. “Why isn’t that history told from our perspective?” Small asked. “We were fighting for a way of life.”
When asked what non-Indigenous individuals can do to support the work of SALP and the larger preservation of Native life, Small spoke of the importance of empathy and unlearning: “It’s your burden to go educate and raise your children differently.”
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