🌺 RECLAIMING OUR INDIGENOUS ROOTS: A DECOLONIAL PRAYER

A blog by Amma Sophia Rose

I am fiercely, unapologetically passionate about reclaiming our Indigenous ways.
Not as a trend.
Not as an aesthetic.
But as a birthright — a remembering that rises from the land, from the bones, from the very womb of the Great Mother herself.

I grew up inside a Catholic, colonized household where the patriarchy ruled with a clenched fist and a wounded heart.
A home shaped by alcoholism, trauma, silence, and shame, where ancestral stories were hidden and our Indigenous identity was pushed into the shadows.

And in that home, I learned something early:

Colonization doesn’t just erase culture — it erases the soul.

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🌑 The Wound of Colorism and Internalized Colonization

As a child, I was the scapegoat for being the dark one —
“Negrita” they called me, not with affection but with the sharp edge of internalized racism.

As if having melanin was a curse.
As if being close to the Earth made me less.
As if the darker children were automatically the caretakers, the responsible ones, the ones expected to endure.

I was told:

“You’re not as smart.”
“You’re not as beautiful.”
“You should be grateful for what you get.”

This is how colonization speaks