Is This the End of the World? Indigenous Peeps Got Some Thoughts 🌎🤔

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Okay, so everyone's low-key spiraling about the apocalypse, right? But this article hits different. It's all about how Indigenous peoples are viewing the "end times," and it's not just some future thing. They're like, "Hold up, we've seen this movie before." Like, imagine the great flood from the Lil'wat Nation – that's straight-up apocalyptic.

The article gets into how a lot of Indigenous artists are using their art to process all this. They're talking societal collapse, loss, culture shifts – the whole shebang. For them, colonialism was a whole apocalypse, straight up wiping out their way of life. But they're also talking about "survivance," which is like, surviving and resisting at the same time. Talk about a power move.

They brought up this artist, Levi Nelson, who's work incorporates cultural learnings. Nelson’s art comes from pain, due to the deaths and suffering of Indigenous people. Also he said, things are hard rn, but he sees it as a period of great change where everyone is coming together, and there is a reason for the challenges being faced.

Basically, it's a reminder that for some communities, the apocalypse ain't some distant threat – it's history, it's now, and it's something they're actively navigating with strength and creativity. Heavy stuff, but also kinda inspiring, ya know?