To listen to Earnestine Hayes in this beautiful short profile is a gift to any heart that aches for the ills in the world today. I’m so grateful that she found her gift of writing. I hope you enjoy!
“I believe that the things that we learn about balance and about sharing and kinship and survival and dependence are not strictly Indigenous values and knowledge, they are human values and human knowledge, because we are all human and we share all these human experiences of grief and love and excitement and fear, but also because … here we are together. Here we are together. History and events and circumstances have put colonizers and colonized and oppressed and oppressors and all of us together here, now, and our only future is a future together. As humans.”
– Ernestine Hayes (Kaagwaantaan Clan of the Tlingit Nation)
