Returning to our ancestral roots is necessary to heal our suffering-wholeness. As a storyteller, Nia will describe her first Sun Dance experience. She will elaborate on the wisdom she gleaned from the Sun Dance created by her Indigenous ancestors as a way of validating the importance of reciprocal relationships along with a profound sense of interconnectedness with our animate planet and other life-forms.

In acknowledgment of her name “To Go There” (Ketoteyin), Nia is a sojourner, intent on making visible the web of relations within which we live. Nia grew up on Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota. Her tribal ancestry is Cree. She has dedicated the past 30 years to rediscovering the ancient teachings and cultural practices of her Indigenous ancestors.