Status Updates From Nothing More of This Land: ...

a great audiobook and i’m really enjoying the balance of autobiography and journalism

Wow to go from “I want my kids to grow up with Native food” to “I don’t know if I want kids anymore” due to the situation is such a change

“‘When we self-declared our autonomous government, we only formalized and wrote down for outsiders to understand, but it was just a formalization of an ancient process.’”

“Tribes like mine are so relieved once they get it that they have no incentive or energy to think about the flaws in the system they just went through.”

“If they really cared about protecting the land and environment, they would entrust it to the people who have been taking care of it for generations. […] The white colonial land-gobbling machine evolved from brutal, genocidal men to refined nonprofit executives”