Being together in place : indigenous coexistence in a more than human world / Soren C. Larsen and Jay T. Johnson ; foreword by Daniel R. Wildcat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larsen, Soren C. (Soren Christiansen), author.

Johnson, Jay T., author.

Wildcat, Daniel R., author of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Social life and customs.

Indians of North America.

Māori (New Zealand people)--Social life and customs.

Māori (New Zealand people).

Indian philosophy--North America.

Indian philosophy.

Cultural pluralism.

Human-animal relationships--Philosophy.

Human-animal relationships.

North America.

Philosophy, Māori.

Place (Philosophy).

Environmental protection--Philosophy.

Environmental protection.

Cultural pluralism--North America.

Cultural pluralism--New Zealand.

New Zealand.

Physical Description:

xiii, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

Summary:

Being Together in Place explores the landscapes that convene Native and non-Native people into sustained and difficult negotiations over their radically different interests and concerns. Grounded in three sites-the Cheslatta-Carrier traditional territory in British Columbia; the Wakarusa Wetlands in northeastern Kansas; and the Waitangi Treaty Grounds in Aotearoa/New Zealand-this book highlights the challenging, tentative, and provisional work of coexistence around such contested spaces as wetlands, treaty grounds, fishing spots, recreation areas, cemeteries, heritage trails, and traditional village sites. At these sites, activists learn how to articulate and defend their intrinsic and life-supportive ways of being, particularly to those who are intent on damaging or destroying these places. Using ethnographic research and a geographic perspective, Soren C. Larsen and Jay T. Johnson show how the communities in these regions challenge the power relations that structure the ongoing (post)colonial encounter in liberal democratic settler-states. Emerging from their conversations with activists was a distinctive sense that the places for which they cared had agency, a callthat pulled them into dialogue, relationships, and action with human and nonhuman others. This being-together-in-place, they find, speaks in a powerful way to the vitalities of coexistence: where humans and nonhumans are working to decolonize their relationships; where reciprocal guardianship is being stitched back together in new and unanticipated ways; and where a new kind of place thinkingis emerging on the borders of colonial power.

Contents:

Introduction: Being-together-in-place

Part I. "The spirit of my ancestors" : Cheslatta Carrier Nation traditional territory

Pathways of coexistence

Sacred ground

Part II. "You can't stop the ceremonies" : the Wakarusa Wetlands

Ceremony is protest, protest is ceremony

Reciprocal gaurdianship

Part III. "Hakoi ng'tahi/going forward together : Waitangi Treaty grounds, Aotearoa/New Zealand

Treaty partnership

Manaakitanga

Conclusion: Coexistence in a more-than-human world

Appendix: The Treaty of Waitangi/te Tiriti o Waitangi

Glossary of Maori language terms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-242) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Johnson, Jay T. Being together in place.

ISBN:

9781517902223

1517902223

9781517902216

1517902215

OCLC:

965781384