of people who are further and further away from the civil rights movement. You mentioned how knowing the stories of your community, of your history, of your ancestors shaped your own politics. I wanted to give you a chance to kind of speak to this directly. What does yourgeneration have that you think generations like mine might be missing?
you could really say, from the founders' perspective, the bad guys won, right? If you're If you're a founder, you believe Ancestors and our relationship with our ancestors are something that I personally spend a lot of time thinking
lineage and you only see one person who who caught on for some reason or another, but they're really just building sort of on their their ancestors . And and the other thing I'd say is that Patricia Stokes is a psychologist who's done really interesting work on thiswhere she looked at the history of artistic innovation and what were the common themes. And what she came up with
And I looked at like I was born in 1974, and in 1874, 100 years before my birth, all of my Lakota ancestors held all of that knowledge, because they don't discover gold in the Black Hills until 1876.And that's when things go south really fast, right?
So what has the reaction been like for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to have stories shared like this, very much in the storytelling styles of our Indigenous ancestors , with your voice and your interpretation?I think each generation takes them and makes them their own.
veins because how else did we get over all of these? 500 years without faith. So we start with what we based our ancestors have given us because they've survived mostly not just out of sheer genius and God, but also faith. And then we move it into trust over time, throughwork, and we're working with each other. And so I I think that it will be faith and then slowly to trust
ah history of strength, endurance. What I like to talk about is thriving is how are the struggles of my ancestors . So when I introduced myself in the way, I also should say, I'm speaking today from San Diego, California in the in the way in which I was raised. It'simportant to recognize the land that we're on. And so I want to recognize the Kumeyaay Nation on people whose land I'm standing on currently a Zwelithini,
And you don't know whether your kids are going to survive, but what you assume is that you stay, they won't. ancestors , that might create a little bit more empathy for the people who are going through this today.
Something else is kind of taking over in a way. ancestors -- so bands where we were related to or we knew most of the people we were interacting with.
And your internet still works in your little cottage and you can make a donation. ancestors , it makes sense that we get these kind of diminishing returns.
small region so that a famine, for example, could affect an entire location where the ancestors lived. Intriguingly our direct ancestors possibly moved out of Africa about 50,000 to 100,000 years ago after stopping for awhile in the Middle East and then they spread over a wide area. Theyfollowed in the footsteps of other hominids who had exited Africa in prior waves of migration. And these earlier human-like creatures who had migrated out earlier
say about it is that it's made networks more vivid for people. They actually have a physical sense of their social networks that their parents, their grandparents, and their other ancestors never had in part because the technology, in many cases, displays the networks for them and allows them to see what is going on and stay in touch in ways that they never couldbefore. So, networks themselves in people's lives are reified. They're, they're made human in ways that they, that they weren't before. A-, this technology has allowed for immediate
a pancreas well we have it because it was successful in allowing our direct ancestors to survive and to reproduce in uh inprehistory um in terms of a darwinian account I mean what we want to know is
No Irish press in our bleeding house. Anyway. And there'd be delf and pictures of fictitious ancestors , which we never had. They probably bought in the market in the Croom to make us look posh, right? Okay? But I don't think any of our ancestors wererich enough to get their photos taken in 1910. So, that was it, you know?
So if we think about our emotions, we can think about them as like the most ancient part of being human, right? That emotions have always been there to help guide us, right? Anxiety keeps us safe. Our ancestors who weren't anxious, they did not survive to pass their genes into the population. So emotions are old and they are powerful and they tend to initiate in the ancient part of our brains the older lower parts of the brains the amygdala being the major player here. So first emotions
The ancestors were the people who had everything to teach you, right?
Our ancestors , they were the ones kind of doing by hand.
my ancestors , which gave me the strength to go back.
Our ancestors brought so many good things to the world.
Our ancestors ' rubbish is made of metal, and leather, and wood, and clay, and glass, and things that will break down harmlessly.
My ancestors are people who lived outside Glasgow and mined coal there, and then lost their jobs and came to Birmingham, Alabama.
Jewish ancestors and we didn't know how to put one and three together so we let
Our ancestors may have thought natural disasters were raised because they disturbed the harmony of nature by their living ways.
the ancestors of modern Hmong or modern Vietnamese or modern Thai-- and you're a fisherman but what happens in the dry season?
Our ancestors bequeathed it to us.
Her ancestors had owned the American Tobacco Company, a very, very, very wealthy heiress.
Our ancestors could not simulate outcomes.
Our ancestors weren't self conscious.
your ancestors name and then suddenly you're gonna find a video of them walking off the boat at Ellis Island, not gonna happen.
my ancestors for that so then I asked oh what about Seattle yes Seattle is the
uh actually um gained the bodies that we have based on the bodies of of of pre toine ancestors but more importantly we developed the human personality with human interests I'll say a little bit about that in a minute just say you know we
my ancestors , my Ta Moko. And I've shifted from a hotel room bed to a room full of unemployed people to standing here with you today.
the ancestors and their children around the base visitors have left various Rock shells flowers and Driftwood all pulled from the beach and set in a semicircle
Do our ancestors have anything to teach us about entering new eras and creating new worlds?
So our ancestors have been doing investment casting to make jewelry, to make weapons for millennia.
So we are our ancestors ' wildest dreams.
Being good ancestors is certainly, I think, a core part of the ethos of the center and its leadership currently.
Our noble ancestors envisaged the welfare of the whole world and universe.
It was veneration of ancestors and it was veneration of nature.
And the veneration of ancestors is extremely important because it was basically the ancestors were the people who got you to where you were.
- Identity politics is worshiping ancestors , right? - Yeah.
It helped our ancestors spot the tell-tale signs of predators and recognize when certain plants might be poisonous.
Just different ancestors speaking to you while you make it and season it.
right now. Yeah. It's definitely interesting because it sounds like there's all of these approaches-- going back to what we talked about earlier-- all Sometimes our ancestors bring us things right when we need them.
It means all my ancestors have roamed all around West Africa.
One of the ancestors of a second brain is what's called citation management.
Which of your ancestors do you carry with you the most, and why?
You talk about your ancestors , your great great grandparents and some of the decisions that they made and how it influenced you as a teenager or a person who
They literally become the ancestors .
traces food through his ancestors and traces them through his enslaved ancestors .