## Metadata - Author: [[Winona LaDuke]] - Full Title: Recovering the Sacred - Category: #books ## Highlights - We have a problem of two separate spiritual paradigms and one dominant culture—make that a dominant culture with an immense appetite for natural resources. The animals, the trees and other plants, even the minerals under the ground and the water from the lakes and streams, all have been expropriated from Native American territories. Land taken from Native peoples either by force or the colonists’ law was the basis for an industrial infrastructure and now a standard of living that consumes a third of the world’s resources. ([Location 249](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01DV1YCDA&location=249))