✦ Future Ancestar Bookshelf ✦
A small library for future ancestors. These are the books that taught me how to think in systems older than empire — about body, breath, lineage, and the technologies we forgot were technologies.
THE SHELF
Sand TalkTyson Yunkaporta — Indigenous thinking as technologyBraiding SweetgrassRobin Wall KimmererAs We Have Always DoneLeanne Betasamosake Simpson — Indigenous resurgenceMy Grandmother's HandsResmaa Menakem — racialized trauma and the bodyThe Body Keeps the ScoreBessel van der KolkSister OutsiderAudre LordeEmergent Strategyadrienne maree brownThe Yoga Sutras of Patanjalitranslation of your choosinga note from Atara
Every tradition that has outlasted an empire kept its knowledge in the body — because the body is the only archive that travels when you are made to leave, and the only one that cannot be seized at a border.
We use sovereignty for nations and forget it was ever about bodies. A nation is a number of bodies that have agreed on something, and a body in chronic debt to its own nervous system cannot participate in an agreement. It can only react.
breath → body → household
→ community → people → nation
I am a story-keeper by inheritance, not appointment. I hold my own ceremony, and I hold the practice of keeping — carrying a thing forward intact, so it survives another generation.
Sovereign bodies
make sovereign nations.
