The discussion about the anthropological view versus the botanical reminded me of the pequinos in Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. These people live lives born from there mothers and fathers, who themselves are trees. They live communal lives with their community of sedentary and kinetic people in relative harmony. But the anthropological view of human colonization fails to understand this way of live and biology. If we could understand botanical and even faunal life as individual sentience the capital mode of production would still extract it. We do it now to people regardless of their sentience.