![]() ![]() Our grounded normativity compelled us to assist our neighbors if we were able. The Michi Saagiig oral tradition has within it stories of Wendat and Rotinonhsesh:ka /Haudenosaunee coming to us and asking to hunt or farm in our territory during times of famine. In times of hardship, we did not rely to any great degree on accumulated capital or individualism but on the strength of our relationships with others. My Ancestors didn’t accumulate capital, they accumulated networks of meaningful, deep, fluid, intimate collective and individual relationships of trust. Watching hunters and ricers harvest and live is the epitome of not just anticapitalism but societies where consent, empathy, caring, sharing, and individual self-determination are centered. ![]() ![]() There is an assumption that socialism and communism are white and that Indigenous peoples don’t have this kind of thinking. ![]()
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