Practicing Community is less a 'podcast' and more a series of resources, stories, and conversations coming from the vast array of practitioners and changemakers working within and alongside the Youth Passageways network, forming our community of practice.Episode 5: Indigeneity What does it mean to really have a sense of belonging?So much of our modern lives are displaced from traditional ideas of community, or a deep relationship with the land bases we depend on. A sense of home or community is often one divided exponentially among the many obligations that pull upon our time, many often being wholly digital. With an increased sense of malaise and isolation, the ‘old ways’ are becoming 'popularized' while also bringing with them, the hard truths of a legacy of colonialism and systemic oppression. How do we find a good way through these times? What kind of local and global village are we trying to build, unearth, reconnect to? How can we find a common sense of indigeneity that also implores use to strongly root from the center outwards? Without claiming to have answers, this months episode offers some insights into the work of Sobey Wing and his personal journey to doing just that.This month join Sobey Wing, Marisa Taborga Byrne, and Dane Zahorsky for our fifth episode as they discuss the ideas of cultural identity, reconnecting to one’s ancestral lineage, and how to parse varying ideas of community, ancestral connection, and ceremony in an increasingly techno-centric world!About This Months Guest: Sobey Wing currently holds the role of President of Kathara (Katara) Filipino Indigenous Arts Society based in the Unceded Coast Salish Territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) (tuhslay woah tooth) peoples. The goals of the society are to continue to support re-indigenizing and decolonizing as Filipino diaspora living away from their homelands. This includes with it a focus on rites of passage. They consult with indigenous people both in the Philippines and with the First Nations people of Turtle Island in doing their work and partner with many organizations. They also strive to be in solidarity with both the indigenous peoples of the Philippines especially those in Mindanao as well as on Turtle Island.Find out more about Sobey’s work:http://sobeyone.tumblr.com/Find out more about Practicing Community on the YPW website:https://youthpassageways.org/practicing-community/