Listening to Different Stories

How can we listen deeply to stories that contradict the ones we've been taught? And how can that question help non-indigenous people wrestle with the legacy of settler colonialism in the United States? We're also joined by Audrey, one of our youth from UUCC for an interview about her experience of her own indigenous identity and heritage. 

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Supplemental Resources! 

Here's the article by Dina Gilio-Whitaker: https://www.uuworld.org/articles/problem-wilderness 

And here's a link to the NPR interview about indigenous forest management practices: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/13/923377261/fire-expert-on-how-indigenous-land-management-could-help-with-fires-in-californi

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76401.Bury_My_Heart_at_Wounded_Knee 

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: http://www.beacon.org/An-Indigenous-Peoples-History-of-the-United-States-P1164.aspx