In Indigenous culture, “relationships are forever.”
I receive many requests from people asking for contact information for Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers from organizations and businesses looking to connect. At face value it sounds good; my entire career is based on bringing Indigenous and non-Indigenous people together through understanding and building community.
When I was told “Relationships are forever,” I thought of this saying as a nice gesture or something kind to say. It’s been through my work with Indigenous communities and Indigenous people that I’ve really learned what it means, by people showing me that the relationship I have with them is forever.
I’ve seen this clash in the business world when a project has ended and an Indigenous person has reached out later for support, advice or assistance with something, and the request is not well received. That type of ask can come across to someone of a western culture as inappropriate or entitled. The issue is that the people they want to connect with, the Elders and Knowledge Keepers, do honour the teaching. I honour the teaching, and if someone drops my name in an introduction, it implies they will carry themselves in the same way I do.
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