The song Great Spirit by Nahko Bear is an important song and video-film of resistance, solidarity, and land-based love and learning. From Nahko Bear’s website, he is “a mix of Puerto Rican, Native American, and Filipino bloodlines” (Nahko and Medicine for the People, 2019), creating stirringly beautiful and richly intellectual musical stories and images. This particular song, Great Spirit, speaks to facing/fighting racism, engaging with spirit and Creation, and finding connective solidarity in land and non-human beings, and is accompanied by a music-video of land, spirituality, animals, and resistance.
Nahko Bear’s music and video demonstrate vital points of resistance and resurgence that are principal to Feminism Beyond Borders. By incorporating spirituality, bodily autonomy, land sovereignty and resurgence, and decolonial anti-racist resistance, Nahko Bear’s song embodies a resistance resemblant to transnational-Indigenous feminisms. The spirituality and autonomy demonstrated in this song can be interpreted and applied transnationally and across different spiritualities/religions too, including but not limited to Creation, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Baha’u’llah, and more. Arguably, when body, mind and spirit are all engaged in resilient resistance, these engagements embody the principles constructing transnational feminism.
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Keywords: music, Indigenous, resistant, resilient, spirit
Author: Django Jane
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