Decolonize, Rematriate and Reindigenize

Mother Earth has been calling her orphan children back home.  Her grief is her voice guiding us to her sacred womb. We are at a time where collectively her children who've upheld settler colonial worldviews and systems are beginning to feel her grief and theirs, seeking reconnection to Earth’s ancestral cultural expressions. In order to minimize individual harm and systemic oppression in this process, we need to decolonize and unlearn many  ways of being, cultivate balanced relationships to our ecosystems and begin an acculturation process. During this talk we will be addressing the experience of decolonization, rematrition and re-indigenization as healthy, sustainable and interwoven frameworks to our collective healing.

Daniel, 44, is an Mestizo Indigenous Kichwa Two Spirits born and raised in Quito, Ecuador. They began their path of curanderismo at the age of 12, following their ancestral heritage laid out in the Andes Cosmology along with medicine elders from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Chile. In 2009, Daniel initiated a deeper acculturation and apprenticeship process under the guidance of the medicine elders of the Kuyaloma community of Napo, Ecuador. They were given the title of Yachak and received their final regalia in 2017. As a member of the Condor Nation, Daniel has been initiated in the Paq’o (Andean Priest) tradition of the Rainbow Condor Nation and Inca teachings. They are under apprenticeship with an Incan family lineage in Chinchero, Peru. They currently live in Boulder and is an ambassador of their cultural heritage in the US. They have been praying and collaborating with indigenous leaders and communities in Colorado for 6 years. They are a member of the Native Coalition of Colorado, and ceremonial dancer of the Mexica community of Boulder, Tlahuitzcalli. In addition, Daniel is a licensed clinical mental health counselor and provides mental health support to the Colorado community through their private online practice, Decolonial Counseling, LLC.

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