Kinship in Indigenous terms, means sharing cultural practice with younger generations. Kinship is about sharing one's self with future generations so they will be able to learn the culture which will help heal past generations for future generations. 

In Indigenous culture there is the seven generations principle, which states that all actions and decisions will impact the next seven generations. When thinking of this principle and how it relates to kinship, I think it is important because the things I do as an educator today will not only impact my students now but for the next seven generations. For this reason it is important to share with students who I am so that they can feel comfortable sharing who they are. I tell students on the first day in my classroom that it is a community and the space is as much mine as it is theirs.