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Unfortunately, a great deal of critical Indigenous knowledge has remained outside the carefully ordered categorization of Western thought, making its holistic concepts difficult to comprehend for those who have been trained to see the world in fractured pieces. It is this fractured view that has been central to the fracturing of our societies and environment.

The same patriarchal power structure that oppresses and exploits girls, women, and nonbinary people also wreaks destruction on the natural world. ... Patriarchy silences, breeds contempt, fuels destructive capitalism, and plays a zero sum game. Its harms are chronic cumulative, and fundamentally planetary.

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