Word:
I am still obsessing on peacemaking circles. Those “in the know” talk about them coming from the First Nations people of the Tingum Tlingit or from the Māori.
Well, as someone who is not ethnically connected to any of those people, I wonder about cultural appropriation of a practice so deeply central to their peoples. I also wonder if there is not something in my heritage that has these practices.
Cultural appropriation is “adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture without invitation or permission of use.” So, I guess I am not appropriating the practices exactly since I’m being taught them. But, I think I can do some work to ground my own practices in my culture.
My ancestry is primarily Welsh/Irish/Scottish then a healthy chunk of German ...