Learn to be patient.

Really! Learn to be patient… because decolonizing is going to take a long time.

In the 1860s, a White-supremacist Scottish-American man named John Muir was touring America when he came upon a massive valley with a huge cliff face at the end of it. Yes: it was the majestic and beautiful Yosemite Valley, now immortalized in Ansel Adams photography. But there was a problem: Yosemite Valley already had people in it. Those people called the valley “Ahwahnee,” roughly meaning “large mouth,” and they called themselves “Ahwahneechee,” the dwellers of the large mouth. By some estimates, there had been people living in Ahwahnee for 8,000 years. But by 1910, over 90% of the Ahwahneechee people were “dead or missing” as a result of colonizer violence… and yet, that doesn’t mean they’re gone.