Tomorrow morning there will be thousands of people flocking to Stonehenge, arriving just after 5am in the cold and dark of a new moon, gathering together to celebrate the Winter Solstice dawn at the ancient monument.

As the Black Lives Matter movement is firmly within the public eye, after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, it feels appropriate to discuss prevailing attitudes towards indigenous people and how they continue to be marginalised and persecuted throughout the world today. Although it might seem strange to claim we were once all indigenous, it is important to bring awareness of our shared history. We are all one people, with many faces and many cultural differences, but we are one people nonetheless. 

Over time I learned that the practices of the spirits I met from prehistoric Britain were part of a wider shamanic culture and the more that I was finding out about that, unearthing that and arguing that, the more that I could see that what had been lost in this land was akin to what indigenous peoples experience in their shamanic cultures. And the more that I connected with the spirits of prehistoric shamans, the more I began to create threads linking a British indigenous shamanic tradition with the modern world.