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Though colonizers tried to erase their traditions through forced conversion to Catholicism, enslaved Africans found ways to adapt and protect their spiritual practices.

The colonizers introduced slavery to these shores two years before the first “Thanksgiving” in 1621.

In a vicious cycle, colonizers or imperial powers justify their borders and walls in the name of “security” while protecting themselves from those desperate to escape their domination.

It’s as if he’s claiming nature’s untrampled territory with his reverential gaze — a distinctly political act for a colonizer.

The Spanish colonizers suppressed this intentional annual brush burning, claiming it was incompatible with agriculture.