| Summary: | My journey to better understand and to live my own WSÁNEĆ legal tradition has always been both complex and incredibly rewarding. This journey has, at times, also come with its challenges and tensions, including through law school and academia. Through the use of story I reflect upon this path of learning, and many of my own thoughts and experiences along the way. I have learned, and continue to learn, from many different people along this path, and I am so grateful to each of them. While this story is primarily a self-reflection, the themes and tensions that the character of this story (Cedar) embodies may resonant with many Indigenous people. These themes include family, community, place, identity, stories, law and culture. Each of these themes comes together and to life in this story through lived experience and my own empowering moments of living and coming to better understand WSÁNEĆ law. Ultimately, writing this story helped me in a moment when I needed it. My hope is that you too can find something helpful and rewarding within this story, and that you can use that along your own path.
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