Where the Water Remembers

What does it mean to teach when your ancestors speak in waves, not textbooks?
What does it mean to heal when you carry your people in your bloodstream-and your silence?

Where the Water Remembers is a poetic narrative series inspired by the true journey of an Indigenous diasporic educator. Part memoir, part autoethnographic reflection, part storying-this series weaves personal history, spiritual awakening, and educational resistance across oceans and continents.

From the fields of Hilo to the cold classrooms of Ontario, Umar searches for a way to teach science without erasing his soul. Through memory, movement, and the stories carried in land and language, he begins to decolonize not only his curriculum, but himself.

For readers of diaspora, Indigenous futures, and healing narratives.
For educators, seekers, and those still learning how to find their place.
This story is for you.
All our relations.