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I lament my own immersion in an economy that grinds what is beautiful and unique into dollars, converts gifts to commodities in a currency that enables us to purchase things we don't really need whole destroying what we do
Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry
What the great process of “civilization” had brought to Indian country was poverty, disenfranchisement, and the breakdown of Indian families. It had ground most of them down.
David Treuer • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
Indigenous people did not despise wage labour primarily because of the effort that it entailed. Rather, they thought the work demanded by capitalists stripped life of its humanity.”
Erin Remblance • How Does Degrowth Apply to Our Minds?
At New Almaden we can see the steps in the proletarianization dance: the alienation of indigenous and peasant populations from the land, the formal establishment of white racial rule, scientific management continually optimizing for maximum profits, looming soldiers. It all adds up to a laboring class with no legal way to reproduce their lives exce
... See moreMalcolm Harris • Palo Alto
The services that the government provides to Indians might be likened to rent. The rent for use of the entire country of the United States.