Why I’m raising my daughter on the rez—a portion of her traditional homelands—
Rez life is pride. It’s knowing where you come from. It’s eradicating the colonizer’s influence and racism from our daily lives. Rez life is love. Resistance. Rez life can heal.woven into our children’s lives—and our grandchildren’s lives—for generations. It is the smiles on River-Jaxsen’s grandparents’ faces, and the many hugs, when she walks in the door for a visit with her moshum and kokum. It is my daughter never doubting that she is loved by so many.
Above all else, the reservation is where I teach River-Jaxsen how to care for the land, how to walk among it, and how to treat every life form with whom we share it.to help me outside. Sometimes it’s minus 25 degrees out when we complete this portion of our daily routine. As I pull her snow pants up, she knows what the plan is.“Check rabbit snares, Mom?” she asks again. I smile and nod.
Climbing up from the ravine and back to our home is always challenging—I do my best not to slip in the snow with her in my arms. But her smile and excitement is so rewarding. I usually stop about halfway up, where we both look across the ravine, to the hills and valleys around us, and I whisper, “Wow.”“Mom, make snow angel too!” she always says to me.
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