Description
Book SynopsisThe authors of Re-Indigenizing Ecological Consciousness and the Interconnectedness to Indigenous Identities share the diversity and complexities of the Indigenous context of worldviews, examining relationships between humans and other living beings within an eco-conscious lens. Michelle Montgomery’s edited volume shows that we belong not only to a human community, but to a community of all nature as well. The contributors demonstrate that the reciprocity of Indigenous knowledges is inclusive and represents worldviews for regenerative solutions and the need to realign our view of the environment as a “who” rather than an “it.” This reciprocity is intertwined as an obligation of environmental ethics to acknowledge the attributes of Indigenous knowledges as not merely a body of knowledge but as multiple layers or levels of placed-based knowledges, identities, and lived experiences.
Table of ContentsContents
Foreword by Bill Thomas
Chapter 1. Traditional Ecological Knowledges: An Antidote to Destruction by Daniel Wildcat
Chapter 2. Nā Mele Kūʻē by Hōkūlani Rivera
Chapter 3. The World and the West by Jasmine Neosh
Chapter 4. Reflecting on Environmental Narratives: In Order to Address the Legacy of Settler Colonial Structures Painted on the Rocks is the Story of My Beginning by Pah-Tu Pitt
Chapter 5. Indigenous Moral Epistemologies and Eco-Critical Race Theory by Michelle Montgomery
Chapter 6. Ripples and Ribbons: Indigenizing Apiculture and Pollinator Stewardship by Melanie Kirby
Chapter 7. Indigenous Feminisms and Environmentalism in Care of Place by Paulette Blanchard
Chapter 8. Queer Indigeneity: Decolonizing our Relationships to Build a Sense of Belonging by Michael H. Chang and Melissa Watkinson-Schutten
Chapter 9. Building Sustainability by Creating Belonging by Merisa Jones
Chapter 10. Restoring the Chehalis Story: An Indigenous Approach to Reclaiming and Re-Centering a Tribal History by Mary DuPuis
Chapter 11. Politicizing Our Waters: An Examination of the Boldt Decision’s Role in Anti-Indian Activism by Drew Slaney
About the Contributors
