The problems of today, in any nation on the planet, have their roots in history – in decisions made and paths taken. It is a particularly apt time to look closely at colonization. We can think of it simplistically as a pattern in the past whereby certain nations, through a combination of practices, subdued and attempted to supplant the indigenous peoples of lands the supplanters desired. That combination of processes was not singular. There was the outright use of military force; there was the withholding of food and access to survival (in combination known as genocide); there were attempts to destroy the culture, language, and spirituality (known as cultural genocide). However, colonization is not simply a process that is engaged in by the colonizer on those to be colonized. It also requires fundamental changes in the hearts, minds, and ways of being of the colonizers themselves.