If They Win: A Very Ordinary Genocide

Are we living through what the Native intellectual Steven Newcomb calls 'a view from the shore'?

By: Tessa Lena

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Due to confusion, fragmentation, and abuse, atrocities that are obvious in the retrospect can feel “ordinary” and almost “rational” in real time

• It is possible that we are living through what the Native intellectual Steven Newcomb calls “a view from the shore, referring to the original people of this land looking at the shi…