The discovery of easier trade routes. The civilization of less fortunate peoples. The opportunity to reach human potential through innovation. These lofty goals are the pretexts, written down as history, that have empowered the rise and domination of colonial capitalism. Taken at face value, the historical record can sound like progress, a principle that drives modern life. But the language of improvement and its values - streamlining, competition, conquest, homogeneity - have enabled damaging, often devastating action predicated on winners and losers. Once we decode the myth of progress, how do we address its issues? How do we act globally with integrity? This course offers practical scripts for encoding other ways of relating to our fellow dwellers on Earth through the lessons of Indigenous peoples of the Americas and the Global South.