“The past is not a burden; it is a scaffold which brought us to this day. We are free to be who we are — to create our own life out of our past and out of the present. We are our ancestors. When we can heal ourselves, we also heal our ancestors, our grandmothers, our grandfathers, and our children. When we heal ourselves, we heal Mother Earth.”
~ Rita Pitka Blumenstein, Yu’pik,
member of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
Creative Liberation Now 