Pieces of Who I Am: Indigenous Identity & Mobilizing for Right Return

my debut album. my book of prayers.

gathering my medicine bundle

hope and fury, palm to palm

if this collection of songs reaches you

i pray it fuels you on your path in this revolution for Right Return

pieces of who i am

longing, dreaming, scraping, knowing

Indigenous - acts of revolution in simply being

i have always been all that i am

i have always held this wisdom

that wakes me too early and keeps me up too late

there is much to reMatriate

chronically ill and disabled warrior magic

softie / baddie

hungry for revolution

sparked in pillow talk with comrades

and back caresses from my ancestors

kept alive in meal preps and craft dates

to be Native and Queer

Two Spirit and Mahu

ever-bridging: identity, space, time, and service

i offer my gifts of music and dance

of truth-telling and dream-scheming

because i was not born to these lineages

of medicine-weavers and water-speakers

to see pieces of who we are

be stolen

by perpetuated cycles of cultural genocide

Lheidli - Kanaka - Irish - Chinese

alchemize to make me

raised by Mom

gifted purpose in my namesake

Indigenous Identity and Mobilizing for Right Return

i gather these pieces of who i am

in the face of the ones who try to erase us

shedding and armouring

i am KeAloha

in gratitude, prayer, and promise