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Methods that do not resemble western science are not de facto "primitive."

— Grace Dillon Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012)

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The vibrancy of change permeates the air around all of our nations, human and more-than-human.

The myths about idealizing settlers and settler nations at the time of contact are a huge misunderstanding that are still promoted today.

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Walking the Clouds returns us to ourselves by encouraging Native writers to write about Native conditions in Native-centered worlds liberated by the imagination.

Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012)

May you find balance too. Mino bimaatisiiwin!

Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012)

Climate change is as much about humanity as it is about industry, and it is creative efforts that will ultimately move hearts and minds to address the problem.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

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