Silvia

“One of the Indigenous healers I consulted in the first year of the case had said to me, “An Indian has to be an Indian, or he’s hollow.” Thirty years later, in 2018, the Indigenous American writer Tommy Orange wrote in his novel There There, “It’s important that he dress like an Indian, dance like an Indian, even if it is an act, even if he feels like a fraud the whole time, because the only way to be Indian in this world is to look and act like an Indian.”
― Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery