Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.
Like many of our ancestors before us, they could withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. "the remarkable resilience of so many institutions" 
They lashes is our way to show indigenous futurism of our resilience and to show we are still here and we can recover and come back stronger than before.