On Race...

I met an acquaintance at the Guelph Organic Growers Conference and we got to talking about buck skin and I invited her to come to the Canoe Museum where I have space these two weeks and am softening about 20 white tail deer hides.
She said she might, but would probably just go to the reserve to learn.
I think that race used to be interesting, or pertinent, when people of different families/lineage lived in different ways. Now that the majority of people live in a similar (industrial) way, is race less important?
For me I'm interested in place based living. There are people who carry knowledge and stories that are from families/people that have lived in a place continuously for thousands of years, which I am enthralled by. Strength, Resilience.
I am from a family/peoples that hasn't lived in a place for some while, but just like you, I am of this earth.