In her book As We Have Always Done, Michi Saagiig Nishaabeg author and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson writes about the importance of thinking backward and forward at the same time. Thinking in cyclical rather than linear time, we see more clearly the ways that generations are linked. We are so used to thinking of history in a linear way. But there are things we do every year, at a particular time, that return us to cycles. Annual holidays and gatherings are a way of marking cyclical time as we come back to those places and meals and specific family gatherings again and again. Each cycle
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