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Deep look at Anton Treuer’s legacy in language, culture, and racial reconciliation.
“When you look at the history of humans, only ten thousand years ago, everywhere, we were all pretty communal and village focused,” Treuer says. “Only after we became agricultural and figured out how to lock up food and accumulate wealth did we find new forms of oppression. This way of structuring violence and power, it was perfected in Europe, where white folks were doing this to each other for thousands of years before they took it to the rest of the world. It’s really good at extracting resources, but it’s not so good for anything else. We’ve become so steeped in individualism, materialism, and competition that we’re now left with a world where all human beings need healing.”