Concentric Circles of Hope
I was raised in a family community with my aunts, cousins, sibling, and parents in Rainier, Oregon with Yup’ik Eskimo values and ways of knowing. When I left home after high school, I began feeling my difference from the mainstream dominant culture around me--I didn’t have connections with other Native people outside my family. My Great Grandma Helen born in was Bethel, Alaska. Granny Clara and the Great Aunties, my culture-bearers, were raised up-river on the Kuskokwim in th
