Love this answer. :-)
Also, from the perspective of an outsider, your culture is far from dying. Here in Canada, we started down the long road of reconciling our history towards our Indigenous population a handful of years ago - and when we were in New Zealand, it felt like the country was a decade ahead of Canada. (which in turn is probably at least a decade ahead of the USA.)
There will be retrograde motion, and there will always be asshole xenophobic politicians; but it certainly felt like on the whole NZ was getting it more right than wrong.
Thanks for the info. I’ll do some digging.
If we’ve learned anything in Canada in the last 15 years, it’s that finding out about a culture before adopting it is kind of important.