Welcomed as a Brother by Native Peoples

[Peter Crowe]

The colonization the professor was speaking of was having your people's ways of living/beliefs/dress/et.al replaced with the ways of another dominant culture...she was not speaking so much of the geographic colonization. Despite her choice of words, her message was to return to the wisdom of our ancestors - incorporate it - don't lose it - use it in today's world.

I take your point RiverKilt, but Scotland (some might say miraculously, although there is a rational historic explanation) has despite all the changes in the modern world over the last 300 or so years maintained a distinct civil society and culture. Sure, it has changed and adapted by responding to a changing world, but it has nevertheless been maintained. As an historian I have a high regard for the venerable and traditional, but every generation has to rediscover and recover it's past and make sense of it in terms of it's present (and near past) without falling into the trap of reductive revisionism. To do otherwise is an invitation to anachronism.