The law is the latest step in a process of healing colonial scars — but these scars cannot heal while bones and bodies of grandmothers and grandfathers still fill up museum exhibitions.
The Exchange’s website states that the project is committed to environmental justice by improving “discriminatory practices of the past” and acknowledges the damage that climate change does specifically to “low-income communities and communities of color.” However, none of the partner coalitions and social organizations under The Exchange have been identified as Indigenous or Indigenous-affiliated.