From Burn It Down to Build It Up

Leaving the Politics of Collapse Behind to Build a Future for Native Communities

Note from the Author

Before we get into it, a note on where I’m coming from. Especially for the white readers of this piece, and maybe a few Native readers, too. I’m writing this from a unique position. I’m half Native (Navajo), half white (Romanian/Scottish), raised in and around tribal colleges. One side of my family carried stories of medicine people …