"American Indian thought, Philosophical Essays", Edited by Anne Waters, Blackwell Publishing, 2004. From the Introduction, pg.xxxii, on an essay by Laurie Ann Whitt. "Whitt points out that Indigenous knowledge and knowledge systems were initially deprived of cognitive standing by colonial agents. However, ..."commodification of Indigenous spiritual knowledge ..specialty of New Age industry...traditional medicinal knowledge...specialty of pharmaceutical industry, commodification of plant genetic resources and indigenous agricultural knowledge...specialty of commercial seed industry...traditional knowledge ...collectively known for generations...is being privatized and commodified at accelerating rates." This is sad as we must come to the terms of how much we have literally allowed to be stolen or absconded by bad intent from settler societies. I am guilty of assimilative practices in my lifestyle, knowing the value of what my family had given, gifted to
Indigenous Issues in canada, u.s. and world. Reflections on contemporary and neo-colonial methods of the government. Land and Water is life. The land is the culture. Our children our future.