Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In one of the most grounding moments of the film, Hereditary Chief Na’Moks of the Tsayu Clan, speaking from Wet’suwet’en territory, shares what therapy means within their ancestral ways. He explains that healing is not found in an office or a diagnostic framework—it lives by the river, in the mountains, on the land itself. It lives in hunting their food, walking old trails, and being in relationship with the animals and waters that have sustained his people since time immemorial.
Na’Moks describes how, for Wet’suwet’en people, therapy is not separate from daily life. It is the rhythm of being outside, listening, tracking, feeding the fire, knowing the river’s voice. Wellness comes through connection: connection to territory, to clan responsibilities, to the wildlife who return when cared for, to the enduring laws that shape how humans belong to place.
In the context of imposed systems of psychology and the ongoing displacement of Indigenous peoples from their homelands, his words land with unmistakable clarity: their ancestral ways already hold the healing. Their practices of land-based living are the therapy. Relationship itself is the medicine.
Chief Na’Moks’ voice is firm, rooted, and carrying generations of knowing—guiding us into a truth that Western frameworks have long refused to see: that when people are in right relationship with land, they are in right relationship with themselves.
✨ Experience this moment in the global premiere of If An Owl Calls Your Name
Join us for the If An Owl Calls Your Name Global Premiere + 5-Day Online Gathering with Indigenous Elders, Healers & Activists
🗓️ December 9–13, 2025
🎬 Register by donation (including $0) via the link in bio or at TheEternalSong.org/owl
and step into this circle of remembrance, healing, and ancestral wisdom.
#IfAnOwlCallsYourName #LandBasedHealing
#AncestralTherapies #WisdomOfTheAncestors #DecolonizingHealing
#IntergenerationalHealing #SANDFilms #TES
In one of the most grounding moments of the film, Hereditary Chief Na’Moks of the Tsayu Clan, speaking from Wet’suwet’en territory, shares what therapy means within their ancestral ways. He explains that healing is not found in an office or a diagnostic framework—it lives by the river, in the mountains, on the land itself. It lives in hunting their food, walking old trails, and being in relationship with the animals and waters that have sustained his people since time immemorial.
Na’Moks describes how, for Wet’suwet’en people, therapy is not separate from daily life. It is the rhythm of being outside, listening, tracking, feeding the fire, knowing the river’s voice. Wellness comes through connection: connection to territory, to clan responsibilities, to the wildlife who return when cared for, to the enduring laws that shape how humans belong to place.
In the context of imposed systems of psychology and the ongoing displacement of Indigenous peoples from their homelands, his words land with unmistakable clarity: their ancestral ways already hold the healing. Their practices of land-based living are the therapy. Relationship itself is the medicine.
Chief Na’Moks’ voice is firm, rooted, and carrying generations of knowing—guiding us into a truth that Western frameworks have long refused to see: that when people are in right relationship with land, they are in right relationship with themselves.
✨ Experience this moment in the global premiere of If An Owl Calls Your Name
Join us for the If An Owl Calls Your Name Global Premiere + 5-Day Online Gathering with Indigenous Elders, Healers & Activists
🗓️ December 9–13, 2025
🎬 Register by donation (including $0) via the link in bio or at TheEternalSong.org/owl
and step into this circle of remembrance, healing, and ancestral wisdom.
#IfAnOwlCallsYourName #LandBasedHealing
#AncestralTherapies #WisdomOfTheAncestors #DecolonizingHealing
#IntergenerationalHealing #SANDFilms #TES
