The authors of this book share the diversity and complexities of the Indigenous context of worldviews, examining relationships between humans and other living beings within an eco-conscious lens, showing that we belong not only to a human community, but to a community of all nature as well.

The 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.

Contents

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