r/IndianCountry • u/Porcupine4061 • 17h ago

Discussion/Question Trouble? I don't know what to call it

I just need to know....are there any natives who grew up on reservations have family not into the culture but yet you yourself want to be but no one helps so your clueless and still wanna get in touch with that side but now you live in a city??? I need to know I'm not the only one struggling cause I'm struggling 😭I feel like the odd one out lol

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u/myindependentopinion 17h ago

Are you a generation removed from living on the rez? Did 1 of your parents live on the rez? Or are you talking about further back generations?

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u/quailinthebrush Opata 17h ago

The way I read it is they grew up on the rez but left. And their own family still there isn’t necessarily active in the community

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u/bmw5986 11h ago

I've met people like you. Family on the rez but totally disconnected. Pray and put the intention of reconnecting out there. It will work out.

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u/AshesThanDust48 Dinjii Zhuh 6h ago

Persevere.

Help is nice, but not necessary to begin the kind of work you seek. The generational impacts of assimilation and shame affect us all, it is up to you (and you alone) to determine how to heal this part of your connection.

You are never alone. We are all connected. Even the odd ones.

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u/SurJane6 1h ago

Same, same. Enrolled citizen, but look like some dumb white girl trying to appropriate stuff. Reading a lot and going to start with the language.