Own It - Decalring an Identity - Ty Running Fisher

Own It - Decalring an Identity

Now that we are in the 21^st century, identification, classification, and categorization go hand in hand. If you identify as a one thing, you will be classified as another thing, which then allows you to fit into one specific category pertaining to the identification. A very common one would go specifically to gender, if identified as a male, the classification goes to “heterosexual, or homosexual,” then, a categorization simply will follow.

            Cultural identification is also very important in two different ways. There is the identification of which clan your lineage was with, and there is the identifying for a sense of belonging. “I think; therefore, I am,” is a famous quote by the Latin Philosopher René Descartes, and is fitting because it is impossible to feel like you belong to your tribe, or affiliations without telling yourself, and knowing. Furthermore, when you can tell yourself, for instance, “I belong to the Siksiika clan in the Blackfoot Confederacy,” it refers to your ancestors once having been part of something huge, and knowing that, being able to identify as a Running Fisher, or a Blackfeet, is an important personal identification for me.

            Lastly, without wanting to identify, a soul can’t become a firm believer in what the mind, body, and soul actually do want to believe in. If you want to identify as something, commit fully, it will all turn out alright. Everything will be alright, you just have to believe.

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