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Originally Posted by Versus
Gah. Forgot to add this.
Regardless of how synonymous our ideas could be, I couldn't understand it the same; The environment may be important to me, and cultural appropriation may be something that I have to deal with, but they are separate things to me. There is a distinction. I don't think it's for us to determine where their cultural destruction begins and their environmental destruction ends, because for a lot of natives, they're the same thing.
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A friend of mine explained to me once that she's an environmentalist because taking someone's environment away from them is one of the worst things you can do to a people. I think environmentalism is well part of anti-oppression, but for aboriginal people its particularly prominent, especially those on reserves live on the front lines so to speak.