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Pathway 6 of 8 · 8 posts · about 56 minutes of reading

Who you come from

Settler reckoning, inheritance, and the asymmetry of clean slates.

💡 If this is you: Settlers reckoning with mixed family legacies in colonized places; reconciliation practitioners; engineers and product builders romanticizing greenfield.

The question this pathway answers: How do inheritance, family systems, settlement, and historical context continue shaping the people we become?


1. Land Acknowledgement

Sunday · Land Acknowledgement · about 1 min

The territorial and historical foundation.

2. Land & Context

Sunday · Land-based Thinking · about 3 min

The fuller positionality: settler genealogy, named contradictions, decentring.

3. Who Are Your Ancestors

Sunday · Reconciliation · about 9 min

The central essay: Indigenous introductions, Kainai Industries, 'I live inside that question.' Convergence not category.

4. You Don't Get to Choose Who or What You Love

Tuesday · Personal Essay · about 5 min

Community as the cure; Blackfoot relational personhood vs Maslow's hierarchy; systems of reciprocity, found family.