[mock-possum]

Yeah it’s one of those things that kind of sits uncomfortably in the “native Americans were wise nature wizards and we have to unlearn our toxic western industrial capitalist beliefs in order to rediscover their hidden mystical wisdom to save the planet” territory

Like it’s a good story, and it’s true to some degree, but the pageantry around the language people use when treating it is… I dunno it just still sounds like gross Cowboys-and-Indians prose.

[mikewarot]

Native Americans were wise natural wizards.... but it was the Native American Beavers[1,2] doing the work, not the people.

[1] https://kingcounty.gov/en/legacy/services/environment/animal...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-beavers-shape...