Decolonization allows future generations the right to self-determination.
Corntassel 12 (Jeff Corntassel, University of Victoria, Canada “Re-envisioning resurgence: Indigenous pathways to decolonization and sustainable self-determination” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012, pp. 86-101,pdf)
These are changes that also begin within families by embracing the practice of digadatsele’i. As Alfred (2011, personal communication) points out, “Our children should have the opportunity to live more Indigenous lives than we do.” By understanding the overlapping and simultaneous processes of decolonization and resurgence, we begin to better understand how to implement meaningful and substantive community decolonization practices. Future generations will map their own pathways to community resurgence, ideally on their own terms. Through our everyday acts of resurgence, our ancestors along with future generations will recognize us as Indigenous to the land. And this is how our homelands will recognize us as being Indigenous to that place.