Caroline Dodds Pennock - How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
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How we talk about things shapes how we think about them. I try to argue in the book that indigenous people sometimes see these things feathers, for example, which Europeans see in terms of pure commodities as something really spiritual and meaningful. The point is simply we have been conditioned to think about things in this one way. And so I want to try and flip that script and think about them in a different way.
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