Oct 19, 2026 · 5 min · 6 segments
What if strength isn’t something we build for ourselves alone? Inspired by the Grand Portage Band’s response to the closure of our local Coast Guard station, this reflection explores how Indigenous…
I've been sitting with a phrase that feels dramatic and also painfully accurate.
The dominant story, so different from the grand portage story, goes something like this.
Success means climbing a ladder and whoever shines the most Cultural historian Rick Tarnas names this worldview the solar mentality.
We've been climbing it our whole lives, trying to be acceptable humans, whatever that means to you.
Productive enough? Smart enough? Evolved enough? We absorb the story so deeply it becomes invisible.
I've been sitting with a phrase that feels dramatic and also painfully accurate.
The dominant story, so different from the grand portage story, goes something like this.
Success means climbing a ladder and whoever shines the most Cultural historian Rick Tarnas names this worldview the solar mentality.
We've been climbing it our whole lives, trying to be acceptable humans, whatever that means to you.
Productive enough? Smart enough? Evolved enough? We absorb the story so deeply it becomes invisible.
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