Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous - Macleans.ca

McClain's is woke now?? Good for them. Anyway not the tone I expected from a mag I associate with my mom's bathroom reading.

Haven't read the whole thing yet, but must admit that I also didn't associate high density urban housing with indigenous peoples. But that's just because unexamined stereotypes will camp out in your head until you question them. Like this is uncomfortably familiar:

"When you’re building 30, 40-storey high rises out of concrete, there’s a big gap between that and an Indigenous way of building"

But it's not like Europeans or settler North Americans are still living like they were when they first came to Turtle Island. Why should indigenous people have to live a life frozen in ice, without ever changing.

Preaching to the choir I'm sure. Mostly thinking it loud...