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Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez
3 reviews
risaleel's review
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Classism, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, and Racism
Moderate: Violence, War, and Xenophobia
Minor: Deportation, Child death, and Cultural appropriation
katharina90's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This book beautifully summarizes:
-the pervasive settler colonialism and anti-Indigenous racism in areas like academia, environmental sciences and 'conservation' (which includes National Parks--louder for the people in the back!)
-the continued colonization of Indigenous knowledge, from invalidation and erasure to theft and co-optation (especially in academia)
-human supremacist delusion a.k.a. the Western failure/ unwillingness to recognize that we, as human animals, are part of nature and everything is interconnected
-that capitalism commodifies everything, incl. our animal and plant kin, when we should only be taking what we need and live in right relationship
-settler colonial capitalist extraction is why 'conservation' is needed in the first place
Informed by her cultural teachings the author reframes conservation as healing, and non-native invasive species as displaced relatives, amongst many other nuggets of Indigenous wisdom shared so generously in this book.
I love that she calls out the audacity of white people to deride non-native plants when WE brought them to these lands.
As well as the hypocrisy of settlers to imply only native plant species belong here, while failing to apply that same principle to other species.
Meanwhile, the genocide of Indigenous peoples in the Americas is ongoing.
"Due to all the beliefs and value systems colonizers introduced into the Americas, Indigenous rights and land protectors are a threat to every settler government."
LAND BACK.
A livable planet depends on it.
-the pervasive settler colonialism and anti-Indigenous racism in areas like academia, environmental sciences and 'conservation' (which includes National Parks--louder for the people in the back!)
-the continued colonization of Indigenous knowledge, from invalidation and erasure to theft and co-optation (especially in academia)
-human supremacist delusion a.k.a. the Western failure/ unwillingness to recognize that we, as human animals, are part of nature and everything is interconnected
-that capitalism commodifies everything, incl. our animal and plant kin, when we should only be taking what we need and live in right relationship
-settler colonial capitalist extraction is why 'conservation' is needed in the first place
Informed by her cultural teachings the author reframes conservation as healing, and non-native invasive species as displaced relatives, amongst many other nuggets of Indigenous wisdom shared so generously in this book.
I love that she calls out the audacity of white people to deride non-native plants when WE brought them to these lands.
As well as the hypocrisy of settlers to imply only native plant species belong here, while failing to apply that same principle to other species.
Meanwhile, the genocide of Indigenous peoples in the Americas is ongoing.
"Due to all the beliefs and value systems colonizers introduced into the Americas, Indigenous rights and land protectors are a threat to every settler government."
LAND BACK.
A livable planet depends on it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Murder, Violence, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Genocide, Racism, and War
Minor: Child death, Xenophobia, Confinement, and Deportation
madmantha's review
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
Phenomenal book, I would suggest it to absolutely EVERYONE. Strangers, friends, family, everyone. I want to purchase for my whole family for Christmas.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide, War, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Violence, and Colonisation
Moderate: Police brutality and Deportation
Minor: Drug use, Animal death, Death, Deportation, and Gaslighting
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