"Notice how the modifier 'crude' is often used before the term 'stone tools' to describe indigenous people’s tools, as in, 'People of this tribe, using crude stone tools, were able to fashion basic weapons for hunting,' or other, similar nonsense. This is approximately the same way people of our culture describe pre-historic man. They’re assuming indigenous people wanted the same thing we want, that they wanted an efficient way to make something quickly, without any meaning behind the making of the item or its use (note how much waste our efficiency entails) but that they were just not evolved or advanced enough to get it. The thought never occurs to us that an indigenous person learned something in the making of that stone tool and in its use. We are so lazy and fond of doing things in the easiest way that it never crosses our minds that other peoples wouldn’t want the same. Using 'crude' and other such terms is a value call, but people in our culture don’t see that." - Current excerpt from
Look for Our Mother and Our Father, used with permission.
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