Reconciliation
The number one job of settlers is to seek the places that unsettle you and just stay there, prepared to linger there a long time so that in your openness and vulnerability and confusion you might finally enter into relationship with the land and people you have unsettled.
Would you expand on that thought a bit more as I do not understand.
In Canada, we talk about indigenous people and “settlers.” A number of years ago a book was published called “Unsettling the Settler Within” which talked about strategies for non-indigneous people to find themselves in improved relations with indigenous people, largely by looking at their own blind spots. Reconciliation in Canada is the process whereby our society has embarked on a generational project of reckoning with indigenous title, historical wrongs, broken contracts and a Crown that has largely lost it’s ability to morally impose it’s law on indigenous nations. This is often hard for non-indigenous settlers to grasp, and they grow frustrated and angry about “claims” that indigenous people put on the settler governments. I am suggesting that for settlers, their only job is to remain in this place of confusion. Colonization comes when settlers declare themselves the right to be comfortable and “settled” in someone else’s land and presence.
I hope I didn’t over-explain!