Hitchcock Nature Center

“The Osage way of thinking is that you honor relationships and help people out . . .”

… It tells us how to love. How to treat women. How to raise my daughters. How to address my aunts and uncles. It tells me the things I need to know to get past death of a loved one. It tells me how to recognize needs in others. How to lead. Taught me how to bring people joy. It emphasizes accepting people as multifaceted. That was just a really solid ground on how to be a good human. To find value in your values, and see that you are doing your job to carry and pass them on in the way they were handed to you. Whether observing cultural protocols, or just how you interact in your own family, how you treat people. And adaptation; I do not mean ‘assimilation.’ It is the ability to pull your morals and Osage values intact across the threshold of time.”

~Ryan Redcorn, in Project 562 by Matika Wilbur

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This place is on the traditional territory of the Báxoje Máyaⁿ (Ioway), Yankton, Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha), Jíwere–Ñút’achi Máyaⁿ (Otoe-Missouria), and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ nations. (Crowdsourced info compiled by Native-Land.ca. Please visit the nations’ websites to learn more.) We support indigenous land rights and the Land Back movement.

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