Essay · Pit River territory, diaspora, and kinship

Gedin Ch-Lum-Nu · Let It Be This Way

On Indigenous diaspora, belonging, relation, creation, and repair.

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Central claim

Relation is both the site of injury and the ground of repair; destruction does not create the future that Indigenous community requires.

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Enter the lived concerns that animate The Long Return: belonging, hurt, memory, kinship, and the work of return.

Boundary and status

This is Christopher Knorr’s authored work, not an official Tribal statement. It reflects his own argument and experience.

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