This writer shares the right (and wrong) ways to honor Indigenous spirituality

Patty Krawec at a Wet'suwet'en solidarity event at the Canada-U.S. border. (Patty Krawec)

I'm figuring out through this series that much of a person's spiritual identity — and by extension a person's spiritual community — has to do with a sense of belonging. Where do we feel welcome? Where do we feel recognized and understood?

Sometimes we find that belonging in the most unexpected places, in cultures or traditions that we are not born into, but that fill us up with a spirit of generosity and acceptance. Sometimes, we find it buried deep in our own histories — in our own family legacies.