Colonialism was, and remains, a
wholesale destruction of memory. Lands, the sources of identity, stolen.
Languages, ripped from mouths. The collective loss to humanity was
incalculable, as cultures, ideas, species, habitats, traditions, cosmologies,
possibilities, patterns of life, and ways of understanding the world were destroyed.
Countless ecological traditions – involving diverse ways of being with nature –
were swept away.
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As formal colonialism came to an end, the process of erasing its crimes from public memory and effacing history began
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In the last decades of the 19th century, tens of millions of Indians died of famine, while British colonial policy forced the country to export record levels of food. If their bodies were laid head to foot, the corpses would cover the length of England 85 times over (5). The evisceration of the Congo, designed to extract maximum levels of ivory and rubber, killed at least 10 million people – half the country’s population at the time
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