We’ve been here before.
Long before laws written without the land’s consent.

We survived invasion.
We survived erasure.
We survived forced prayers, stolen children, broken treaties, and deliberate forgetting.

They tried to erase our languages.
Our ceremonies.
Our names.

And still—we are here.

So when people ask, “What’s going to happen to America?”
We don’t panic.

Because collapse is not new to us.
Loss is not new to us.
Rebuilding is not new to us.

This era is a test.

Not of military strength.
Not of economy.

But of spirit.

Will people choose fear…
or responsibility?

Will they cling to comfort…
or face the truth?

Will they protect systems that are dying…
or help birth something more honest?

America is entering a remembering.

And remembering is uncomfortable.
Because truth always is.

But for Indigenous people—
this moment is not the end.

It is a return.

A return to land.
To community.
To accountability.
To the understanding that no empire outruns the consequences of how it treats life.

If you’re scared, ask yourself why.
If you’re angry, ask yourself what’s being challenged.
If you’re awakening, you already know.

We are not living through the end of the world.
We are living through the end of pretending.
And some of us were built for this moment.

We are still here.
And we’ve survived worse.

Anishinaabe Healing
Art: Mother Earth by Angela Babby-Lakota