Reading a Landscape
sometimes involves going back to before the times of appropriation and colonization,
before the introduction of the rat and the pig, and everything that followed. Reading
a Landscape sometimes involves as much unlearning as it does learning, as myths
and misconceptions fall away like autumn leaves that reveal a big stone snake
along an ancient Indian road…
Unlearning a Zig Zag Row of Stones:
The carefully constructed pre-contact zigzag stone row at the bottom of layers and layers of the post-contact field clearing stones tossed from the former field above...
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