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Gov. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the largest land return in California history, declaring his support for the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ago and submerged. The 2,800 acres in Siskiyou County are part of the Klamath River dam removal project, which will rehabilitate more than 300 miles of salmon habitat. “This is a down payment on the state’s commitment to do better by the Native American communities who have called this land home since time immemorial,” Newsom said in a statement. The governor’s announcement Tuesday marked the fifth anniversary of California’s official apology to its Native American peoples for the state’s historical wrongdoings.
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AITA for feeling torn between justice for mistreated people, a desire for diversity, but also a dislike for spiritism of any sort albeit Abrahamic or otherwise? Don't be an A for someone asking a tough question and trying to nav their biases.
I would probably react negatively, without thinking a few years ago if I saw someone ask this question, so I totally understand the tendency to do so. My question is based on two situations. The telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii and resistance to them, and watching Nick Zentner's geology YT uploads where he tries to include some natives and their perspectives. I wanted so bad to see value in what they had to add, like the potential for their oral history to have some missing value overlooked by science, or some narrative like that, but it was always like watching a toddler tell the most cringe stories. Like I expected some kind of consistency in stories like, 'this is how we tell the stories and how we remember them.' However, instead it was like everything I disliked about growing up in conservative Christian cult like extremism. Every question asked had an answer off the cuff. Not some kind of rehearsed thing they knew, but like a child making it up as they went. The focus was not factual or an alternate useful approach. It came across to me as someone that desperately wanted validation of ineptitude.
I'll readily admit I have a strong prejudice against spiritism. I really want to support righting injustices for people. I've experienced the injustice of having my life all but taken from me at the hands of a stranger driving a car poorly. I totally get behind that part. I don't expect people to integrate into religious culture, but I do expect people to modernize when advancement is shown. Like if the mountains near my house are a world class opportunity to advance human understanding, I don't care about the bullshit rituals some church did up there in the past or what my idiot family did for generations. I appreciate the opportunity to advance all of humanity's knowledge and future. I have a hard time feeling empathy for anyone that feels otherwise, like they are little more than an anarchic regressive force. Feel free to make a counter point in a productive way, but know that I walk away from rude or negative people just like in the real world. So I'll delete this if people downvote because they can't handle real conversations or controversy without being a negative person.