Why claim Indigeneity on the island of Ireland?
Our unique gift on this island is to inhabit a biosphere that has been a crucible of change, a wild fringe, where tumultuousness has been our inheritance, and survival has become an instinct honed in land and seascape
For those who grow up, dwell, live, procreate and pass on within this biosphere, we are intricately part of a dynamic past and present.
The culture of our ancestors, across centuries of survival amid turmoil, is passed on in traditional languages, music, stories, crafts and other expressions, unique to these shores.
To realise indigeneity, or dúchasach in Irish, as a way of being in the world, or to embody it, is first an act of commitment to reach to the bottom of our Being and to connect with, preserve and protect where we stand on Mother Earth, including her seas and waterways, as a complex living, sentient Being who provides the essentials of life for us.
The cultural expressions uniting humans behind this commitment and nature-aligned belief systems on this island clearly exist: Gaeilge, the Teanga- or native tongue- is full of the textures, words and idioms connecting to and evoking eco-systems thinking.
Claiming indigeneity on this island as future ancestors means living by indigenous values, modelling them for subsequent generations, and standing with indigenous peoples world-wide to protect, love and nurture healthy habitats.
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