Nature :: Spirit
Exploring kinship in a living, animate world
Showing 6 essays tagged Indigenous epistemology
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61. The Language of Nonspeaking Beings
And what a bougainvillea taught me about how long it can take to step into a kinship world
Dec 16, 2025
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39. The Knowing Inside: Sovereignty of Mind
Or why sovereignty of mind is the first requirement of democracy
Feb 12, 2025
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54. Seeing Each Leaf as a Separate Thing
And why talking with trees is the start of real learning
Jan 17, 2025
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39. The Knowing Inside
It's hard to listen to your own heart in a world that demands you listen to everyone else first
Apr 14, 2023
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28. Seeing Each Leaf
Insights from a Yurok man, shared with an anthropologist, for learning from the spirit of a tree
Oct 29, 2021
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14. Everything Is Alive and We Are All Relatives
On the philosophy shared by Indigenous people around the world; some wise words from Hawaiian philosopher Manulani Aluli Meyer; and how to open your heart to the land-community where you live
Sep 18, 2020
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We have to put the health of the Earth absolutely first. It will mean listening with humility to what the animals and plants and trees and insects need to thrive. It will mean putting their needs first, for they were here first; they prepared the Earth to be friendly to human evolution. Our lives depend on their lives, our health on their health. It will mean loving the Earth, the body of us all. Transforming the law to value ownership less, and health and life more.