Jess’s Reviews > Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy > Status Update

"Interaction defines being"

It's interesting to compare how i was educated about US colonialism and Western expansion, reading James Fenimore Cooper for school, learning about the trail of tears, as if there were no white people at the time saying "hey, Native Americans are people, ethnic cleansing is bad, maybe we can do stuff differently" - and only now learning about Lydia Maria Child, Maria Sedgwick, J Johnston Schoolcraft

Land based relationships, community, multiplicity, developing knowledge from lived experience and humility, the colonialism of the Golden rule

It's so nice to read such smooth, straightforward writing again. The last couple of books were a real struggle so this one feels like a vacation read in comparison 🤣