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  • THE TEXTILE TRILOGY
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    • Oil & Water
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Matrilineality

When you’ve grown up in a patrilineal tribe—where your family name comes from the father and ancestry is traced back through your father’s fathers, it’s difficult to imagine another way. Before the progenitors of the sky gods of three major … Read More

Ancestry, Destiny Kinal, Feminism, Iroquois, Native Americans

Matrilineality and honoring our foremothers

Today I had an extraordinary encounter with a foremother, an ancestor who stood firm in her vision during the years when deals were being struck and friendships betrayed. I was first attracted by Sally Roesch Wagner’s book Sisters in Spirit … Read More

Feminism, Matriarchy, women, Women's Rights

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