❤️❤️ thank you for reading, Alex! I’ve held yours close, too

hold up in law, also yes. Though I’ve seen it done, particularly with land rights cases (someone mentioned Māori too). To be clear, I agree w your points, only wanted to share that for us it isn’t a bracket of the peoples timeline

some of us define indigeneity not by our people pre-contact, but by naming the land herself our ancestor. In Hawaiian you wouldn’t introduce yourself without naming the mountain, stream, plant that raised or sustained your life, and that naming is also a vow to protect. Spiritual, yes; difficult to

yeah, I saw the initial email and lost my shit. thanks for clarifying before the follow up came through...

really?

book drops 3/18 and i have a fucking fantastic tour planned - will announce soon - but there is still time to get a preorder that’s signed and personalized by me from the good folks at the lynx

thelynxbooks.com/item/ZoOPMvN...

same !

thank you for sharing this with me. I cherish any HL story!

moira no 🙈

love ‘chiseled his features’

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