I've been growing my hair two years, and have learned the old growth I started with on top (when I was still buzzing my sides) needs to be cut out little by bit, to let the healthy new hair grow through. I feel like my old hair on top is my old self, and the new undergrowth is who I am now. It is so much healthier, and a darker colour than my old hair on top. Hope that makes sense.
6:06 your 😢 show Understanding and Compassion beyond words (especially weak English). ✊🏽⭕🔥 stay strong relative! I intentionally wear my hair UP ✊🏽 on top 🔥 and short in back as a signal of War against our treatment (hidden grotesque history) and my own treatment, as I've been severed from my Peoples (5 Nations) by the BIA's game of "documentation tracing to Prison Rolls". My ancestors chose free-roam survival (thriving really). Stay proud, strong, and free. ✊🏽. Show ⭕thers what they've lost/forgotten ... how to live FREE.
Miigwech for sharing this. So healing to hear these stories told aloud, rather than reading secondhand accounts in academic articles 🙏🏼 I am currently six months into growing my hair from shaved...def in the wild sticky-outy stage 😂
Worked at our tribal youth center, had a couple boys in there that were really into the culture and had their hair long. It’s amazing to see some of the younger generation taking on the world as it is today and growing it out long despite all the teasing. They were my true inspiration to start growing mine out. About a year in and I can braid it but in two braids. Them boys inspired me at 30 years old to reconnect with this amazing culture of mine. I couldn’t be more grateful for them as well as this beautiful culture we share. Making my way back to the red road as we speak and have gotten back into the arena for dancing. I can’t wait to get back fully in mind body and spirit. I can’t wait to get back on the drum. Powwow today in one of my favorite spots here on turtle island. Chi Miigwich for the video and your perspective on this. Hopefully I’ll be able to sit still long enough to learn the language before nookomis passes. Either way I’m all in like I’ve never been before. Baamaapii cousin, hope life has been good and that hair is long and majestic af
Great share! My son cut his own hair in kindergarten cause a girl made fun of him. We have so many favourite indigenous dancers on these platforms he was so excited to grow it out. I talked to the teacher and she promised to talk to the class, and get a story book about it. We had lots of talks about being himself, and that is our culture too, not theirs, so they don’t understand the way we do… He is at the CRAZY hair phase NOW! Not quite able to tie it back. I feel your feel 🥲 when I see boys with long hair.
Live your Life be the best you you can be love from lower Ontario 💕 502nd subscriber look forward to learning more and having this experience you are sharing!
I kept my head shaved till 5th grade due to the same reasons. I have no idea how to explain it. But I can confirm that as someone who has worked with wild / feral animals and in national park animal services. Long hair changes the way the forest sounds and feels.
It must be really insulting to indigenous people to see all these whites today claiming ancestry like it is some sort of "cool" thing, especially after enjoying the perks and advantages of their white skin all these centuries. It's a real experience to see and hear the stories of real indigenous people. I look forward to learning more.
I used to get a lot of crap for having long hair as a kid. I was very insistent on keeping my hair long to stay connected with cultural heritage. My mother hated it lol, everyone did, but i didnt give a shit, i was happy... then my mother forced me to buzz my hair.
Miigwech! As an adopted individual who is learning more about my Potawatomi lineage, and starting to get in touch with my ancestors, I've wanted to learn more about the good medicine of long hair. When I was a child, I always wanted long long hair, and I feel the ancestors were calling to me, even when I didn't recognize it was them! In 2019 I had a major accident that I'm still healing from to this day, and I had shaved my head. I've wanted to grow it out, but the annoying awkward stages get to me! I'm hoping shaved sides and undercut could help me grow the top out at least
I've been growing my hair two years, and have learned the old growth I started with on top (when I was still buzzing my sides) needs to be cut out little by bit, to let the healthy new hair grow through. I feel like my old hair on top is my old self, and the new undergrowth is who I am now. It is so much healthier, and a darker colour than my old hair on top. Hope that makes sense.
6:06 your 😢 show Understanding and Compassion beyond words (especially weak English). ✊🏽⭕🔥 stay strong relative! I intentionally wear my hair UP ✊🏽 on top 🔥 and short in back as a signal of War against our treatment (hidden grotesque history) and my own treatment, as I've been severed from my Peoples (5 Nations) by the BIA's game of "documentation tracing to Prison Rolls". My ancestors chose free-roam survival (thriving really). Stay proud, strong, and free. ✊🏽. Show ⭕thers what they've lost/forgotten ... how to live FREE.
Miigwech for sharing this. So healing to hear these stories told aloud, rather than reading secondhand accounts in academic articles 🙏🏼 I am currently six months into growing my hair from shaved...def in the wild sticky-outy stage 😂
Blessings to you brother. Can't wait to meet you in person. Your teachings are blessings to those of us who were separated for so long. Truly grateful
Worked at our tribal youth center, had a couple boys in there that were really into the culture and had their hair long. It’s amazing to see some of the younger generation taking on the world as it is today and growing it out long despite all the teasing. They were my true inspiration to start growing mine out. About a year in and I can braid it but in two braids. Them boys inspired me at 30 years old to reconnect with this amazing culture of mine. I couldn’t be more grateful for them as well as this beautiful culture we share. Making my way back to the red road as we speak and have gotten back into the arena for dancing. I can’t wait to get back fully in mind body and spirit. I can’t wait to get back on the drum. Powwow today in one of my favorite spots here on turtle island. Chi Miigwich for the video and your perspective on this. Hopefully I’ll be able to sit still long enough to learn the language before nookomis passes. Either way I’m all in like I’ve never been before. Baamaapii cousin, hope life has been good and that hair is long and majestic af
Great share! My son cut his own hair in kindergarten cause a girl made fun of him. We have so many favourite indigenous dancers on these platforms he was so excited to grow it out. I talked to the teacher and she promised to talk to the class, and get a story book about it. We had lots of talks about being himself, and that is our culture too, not theirs, so they don’t understand the way we do…
He is at the CRAZY hair phase NOW! Not quite able to tie it back. I feel your feel 🥲 when I see boys with long hair.
Thank you for your videos. Im Mexican and trying to find my tribe. Much love from Tucson Arizona
Wow on my birthday
Live your Life be the best you you can be love from lower Ontario 💕 502nd subscriber look forward to learning more and having this experience you are sharing!
I kept my head shaved till 5th grade due to the same reasons. I have no idea how to explain it. But I can confirm that as someone who has worked with wild / feral animals and in national park animal services. Long hair changes the way the forest sounds and feels.
It must be really insulting to indigenous people to see all these whites today claiming ancestry like it is some sort of "cool" thing, especially after enjoying the perks and advantages of their white skin all these centuries. It's a real experience to see and hear the stories of real indigenous people. I look forward to learning more.
I used to get a lot of crap for having long hair as a kid. I was very insistent on keeping my hair long to stay connected with cultural heritage. My mother hated it lol, everyone did, but i didnt give a shit, i was happy... then my mother forced me to buzz my hair.
In retrospect i shoulda been taught to take better care of it. I need to channel some of that child i used to be.
Miigwetch
Thank you for sharing your teachings.
Afro 😂
Isn't June pride month? We should rename pride month to Dignity month
Miigwech! As an adopted individual who is learning more about my Potawatomi lineage, and starting to get in touch with my ancestors, I've wanted to learn more about the good medicine of long hair. When I was a child, I always wanted long long hair, and I feel the ancestors were calling to me, even when I didn't recognize it was them! In 2019 I had a major accident that I'm still healing from to this day, and I had shaved my head. I've wanted to grow it out, but the annoying awkward stages get to me! I'm hoping shaved sides and undercut could help me grow the top out at least