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The unacknowledged, harmful, or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another, and typically more dominant, people or society.

The Story of Our Forests
A common myth - “the pristine myth” - has been perpetuated by colonization; it is the idea that the forests and lands of much of America were relatively untouched prior to colonization

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