The free encyclopedia is full of colonialist narratives.
The information age itself has opened up unique opportunities for harm in this space because “Indigenous knowledges [are] being transformed into something to be monetized and collected for profit,” said, a citizen of the Kōkwel/Coquille Nation and an assistant professor of Indigenous studies at the University of Oregon, in an email.
As Cordes points out, even edits that attempt to represent Native cultures can be troublesome, and there is a long history behind this as well. For example, new editors working with Wikipedia’s
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