The readings this week were certainly interesting! I agree with a previous post that each author's own experience seeps into their writing as it is obvious they have different experiences with specific locations. Having read through the Kyle Whyte excerpt, I now believe that I do in fact know who he is! I believe we read an article written by him about Indigenous food sovereignty in one of Professor Benally's classes. Whyte's piece was probably the most impactful to me because I'm very interested in how intertwined environmentalism is with Indigenous knowledge. His allegory where he compares hovercrafts to industrialization, canoes to Indigenous Peoples, and water to Earth's ecosystem was striking. It certainly showed how connected capitalism and colonialism are to issues related to Indigenous Peoples/climate change. I think Ibu Khaldun's passage was also quite interesting given that he is arguing against the racist idea that God made people unequally since he states that people are greatly shaped by their environment/climate. He is obviously trying to make sense of geographic differences and attempting to explain why people can be so different from one another. Montenesqueiu's piece has similar idea's since he claims that climate/temperature/the environment greatly influence human emotions.