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WJ Kehewin
Dec 23, 20225 min read
The Lateral Violence Project
“When a powerful oppressor has directed oppression against a group for some time, members of the oppressed group feel powerless to fight...
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WJ Kehewin
Feb 21, 202215 min read
Run For Your Life 66 (Content trigger warning for drug use)
My first love was born in the spring of ‘66’ in the middle of an air raid, bombs dropping both near and far, women and children...
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WJ Kehewin
Feb 14, 20225 min read
The Roller Coaster of Intergenerational Trauma
Growing up on the reservation was no picnic in the park. It was more like being on a roller coaster that was coasting along, ready to...
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WJ Kehewin
Jan 3, 20228 min read
She Wants to Live (Trigger Warning Domestic Violence)
The blood zig zags down her thin arm as she brings a cigarette to her quivering lips, dripping round circlets of blood onto the black...
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WJ Kehewin
Oct 19, 20212 min read
Jesus was Born in a Sweatlodge (Fiction)
Mother's favorite thing to do at Christmas was to create the whole manger scene with Jesus and the lambs and of course Mary and Joseph...
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WJ Kehewin
Feb 24, 20215 min read
How Not To Kill Your Family on a Budget
Ever see the clearance sections in the grocery stores and drug stores? You know the ones with the big red, “CLEARANCE” sign that catches...
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WJ Kehewin
Jan 7, 20214 min read
Monkeys In The Brain
I am nearing my 50's and can finally say I have reached scratched the surface of my trauma; enough to understand it at least and not...
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WJ Kehewin
Jun 12, 20202 min read
Trauma and Anxiety Never Go Away (But they can be managed)
I am nearing the other side of 50 still recovering from trauma and it never was an easy road. All the healing work I have done has made a...
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