"Children have a knack for opening themselves to possibilities because they are not bound by ideas of reality and how the world works...For Anishinaabe, children are our teachers, because they are fresh from the spiritual worlds. We relish how babies teach us about gathering love together, how toddlers teach us how to say no and set boundaries, how teenagers teach us about expansion. In our tradition, when children came through the spiritual doorway to the physical earth, they were welcomed into extended families and communities. They were welcomed with an understanding of their self-determination and an ethic of non-interference--children were given the freedom to explore and learn without the confines of rigid authority, violence, or the institutions of school or church. They were woven into a society that modelled sharing knowledge and that existed without police or policing. As such, our stories tell of times when children's own self-determination made massive contributions to Anishinaabe politics, economies and knowledge." Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, #TheoryOfWater
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