This page is still under cultivation right now and will be updated as soon as possible.
European Decolonization is essential. The mentalities that drive rampant destruction of the Earth through privileging economic accumulation, and support the oppression and genocide of Indigenous, Black, LGBTQ2+, Asian, and other peoples who are not seen as “white,” as well as the “universal” notion of “progress” (science) and “salvation” (christianity) all come from various ideas that were generated and then used in very specific ways that were either developed in or took root in Europe. This might sound unfair, and there is a lot being left out concerning hierarchy, and European class politics, but for now, briefly, it appears to many Indigenous writers (see Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Winona Laduke, Vine Deloria, Jr., Leroy Little Bear, for example) that what came out of Europe during the colonial period, and then became globalized in the “modern period” is specifically a European problem.
Many of our European ancestors were colonized before we ever left the continent. The Roman Empire, Christianity, the industrial revolution, even social democracy are all ideas that have shaped the identities of our ancestors, and the intergenerational trauma has been used to weaponize us to dis-place and genocide Indigenous peoples’ on their territories.
Decolonization is not only taking place in settler colonies. There are groups working to decolonize European territory. Take a look at our friends, who offer us the chance to Finfara (a Norse notion of meeting peoples of a different culture, and engaging with them in a good way).
Pitlochry Garden Share – A land-based revitalization of collective uses of land (the English “enclosed” – in other words, evicted – indigenous Scotts and Irish from their territories long before they came to Turtle Island) through community-based service and sharing, restoring food sovereignty (and eventually, once they’re better set up, traditional food systems).
Nordic Animism – Founded by Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen, Nordic Animism
pushes back against the new-nazi uses of Norse cultural symbols and practices to support the decolonization of Norse customs. He offers workshops and courses to support lineage work, place-based practices, and a revitalization of our Norse ancestors who may have been violent, but were not inherently “white supremacist” the way they get promoted as being.