This is such a great interview because Klee is brilliant. Every time they talked about stuff they were hoping to do in the near future my heart ached a little. May colonial society crumble swiftly
This was a great episode, that has gotten me thinking a lot. A university professor told me to search up Klee Benally on November 29 I believe, but because it was finals weeks I did not search up his name until January 2nd when it was announced that he has passed away. The parts that I want to touch on was rewilding on stolen land, and medicine. I think I understand what Benally was talking about how rewilding can be a form of appropriation and colonialism if done with the entitlement of settlers, and without doing the work of having a relationship with the people who are Indigenous to the land. I want to go to a rewilding program to learn the skills needed to live off the land to decrease my dependence on the systems that have hurt me thoroughly, and that have hurt an uncountable many others. As well as the fact that it is hard to act against something that you depend on. I am going to make the effort to form connection with the Indigenous People of the land that I inhabit. My first in is through an Indigenous food sovereignty community garden that I will be helping in any way that I can, and forming relationships that way. And in regards to medicine I mentioned this in the episode with David B. Lauterwasser that I don't buy the hype of industrialized medicine because it extracts from the Earth in a murderous way. I liken it to being like a magic system in a fantasy novel where in order to a spell to heal, you must displace the hurt elsewhere. The worlds of domination are causing a lot of the health problems but because it is taken for granted it isn't seen as the problem that it is. Kinda like how poverty is assumed in capitalist society, it is a feature not a bug. I have started rereading an organic chemistry textbook in order to see if I can synthesize hrt for friends and I without being extractivist/ecocidal. I think about if I am wasting my time or not. As well if this is me being foolish or not. I will ask the people I will work with for the Indigenous food sovereignty community garden what they think about all of this once I have developed a closer relationship with them. I have more things I want to say but I will save it for when I have processed and thought and felt more.
You also need permission from the land though and to truly develop a relationship with it. the land itself may not want you there, especially if your ancestors were colonisers. You have to be willing to hear a “no, I don’t want you here” from the land if you’re truly going to develop a relationship. Also the way you spoke about these indigenous people feels off to me, almost like you’re seeing them as a resource to get to the land rather than just naturally developing organic relationships. It feels icky to me. Even if you do develop relationships, the land may not want you there. Im feeling a colonial spirit from your whole comment even though it seems like you have good intentions.
I see. I apologize for the disrespectful words I have written. And will take what you have written to heart. I accept that I may not be accepted and have to leave.
This is such a great interview because Klee is brilliant. Every time they talked about stuff they were hoping to do in the near future my heart ached a little. May colonial society crumble swiftly
Rest in power. 🖤
Powerful medicine indeed
This was a great episode, that has gotten me thinking a lot. A university professor told me to search up Klee Benally on November 29 I believe, but because it was finals weeks I did not search up his name until January 2nd when it was announced that he has passed away.
The parts that I want to touch on was rewilding on stolen land, and medicine. I think I understand what Benally was talking about how rewilding can be a form of appropriation and colonialism if done with the entitlement of settlers, and without doing the work of having a relationship with the people who are Indigenous to the land. I want to go to a rewilding program to learn the skills needed to live off the land to decrease my dependence on the systems that have hurt me thoroughly, and that have hurt an uncountable many others. As well as the fact that it is hard to act against something that you depend on. I am going to make the effort to form connection with the Indigenous People of the land that I inhabit. My first in is through an Indigenous food sovereignty community garden that I will be helping in any way that I can, and forming relationships that way.
And in regards to medicine I mentioned this in the episode with David B. Lauterwasser that I don't buy the hype of industrialized medicine because it extracts from the Earth in a murderous way. I liken it to being like a magic system in a fantasy novel where in order to a spell to heal, you must displace the hurt elsewhere. The worlds of domination are causing a lot of the health problems but because it is taken for granted it isn't seen as the problem that it is. Kinda like how poverty is assumed in capitalist society, it is a feature not a bug.
I have started rereading an organic chemistry textbook in order to see if I can synthesize hrt for friends and I without being extractivist/ecocidal. I think about if I am wasting my time or not. As well if this is me being foolish or not. I will ask the people I will work with for the Indigenous food sovereignty community garden what they think about all of this once I have developed a closer relationship with them.
I have more things I want to say but I will save it for when I have processed and thought and felt more.
You also need permission from the land though and to truly develop a relationship with it. the land itself may not want you there, especially if your ancestors were colonisers. You have to be willing to hear a “no, I don’t want you here” from the land if you’re truly going to develop a relationship.
Also the way you spoke about these indigenous people feels off to me, almost like you’re seeing them as a resource to get to the land rather than just naturally developing organic relationships. It feels icky to me. Even if you do develop relationships, the land may not want you there.
Im feeling a colonial spirit from your whole comment even though it seems like you have good intentions.
I see. I apologize for the disrespectful words I have written. And will take what you have written to heart. I accept that I may not be accepted and have to leave.
at 56:00 in he's right on about 'academics'