Week 6: Prompt: Share something good about being native/being in native communities/going on in the native community (you can also share how it's not perfect, but just generally positive things)
I love coming home to Muwekma during the day or at night and feeling loved. Whether it's a person I love to see like Taylor or someone I love to hear speak like Mia or some babies I love to play with like Niall and Kieran. I love my life at Muwekma. Sometimes I feel like our community is closed off to outsiders. But that's how home is too. Not saying that it's perfect or right, but it's real. I love bashing colonizers in and out of my life. I love being able to cry myself to sleep next to a native woman. I love sharing a meal with a beautiful soul who I can't stop smiling at. The community we foster is one that I can't compare anything else to. It's like we are these poor rodents on one of those wheels, running all day. Finally stopping to rest and relax. Stanford is stressful, but I love every part of being native here.
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