Nice piece from our friend Alicia #Colson, #archaeologist, researcher and writer with peoples of the #Boreal forest, on extractivist and #Indigenous #worldviews

'The Cree, the Indigenous people who live in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, consider the Ring of Fire region, and the larger geographical region in which it exists as 'home'. They are stewards for the region's remaining biodiversity. Their spiritual, economic, social and cultural way of life is grounded in this region of the world. They practice animism, a contrasting worldview to that held by many of those people in the country's southern cities (and the mining companies), and have the expertise to adapt, mitigate, reduce climate and disaster risks as they have done for millennia. They call these peatlands ‘Yehewin Aski’, or “the Breathing Lands,” as they are the lungs of Mother Earth.'

https://aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/a-clash-of-worldviews-values-and