There's a perverse and infantilist belief among many white people that decolonizing or indigenous means "simple" or "rural" or "back to nature"
as if indigenous people didn't, couldn't, or wouldn't build complex urban environments and were inherently more "natural"
"We think that building housing is part of the solution. We think net zero is part of the solution. We think a car-light development is part of the solution. We think building a sense of place and community is part of the solution."
-- leader of the Squamish nation www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...
