The more we can distinguish our political existence from a race-based one, the better.

— Dina Gilio-Whitaker How to Indigenize the Green New Deal and environmental justice: Native nations and activists must have a seat at the tab (2019)

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The more we can distinguish our political existence from a race-based one, the better.

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