Tagged: Indigenous Peoples

small bridge made of branches stretch over a rushing river

Who Gets to Be Alive? On Rivers and People

In reviewing Robert Macfarlane’s forthcoming book IS A RIVER ALIVE?, Anna Christensen Spydell connects the colonial mistreatment and dehumanization of Indigenous and immigrant “Others” to the pollution and objectification of rivers around the world.

A verdant landscape is intersected by ropes sectioning off the landscape from visitors.

Swampy Relations & Imperfect Restoration

There’s a sinking swamp in the middle of Manhattan that has kept a host of species safe for millennia. Nat Xu uses the space and their work in it to reflect on Indigenous stewardship, more-than-human precarity, and restorative conservation as an imperfect practice.

dog looking out over mountain landscape

Love, Violence, & Respect in Animal-Human Companionship

Companionship across species is not always simple, nor always rewarding, but perhaps says something about respect for more-than-human beings. In this poem and short essay, Kelsey Dayle John reflects on how the complex fear of witnessing her two dogs fight shaped her approach to multispecies relations.

THE RETURN OF NAVAJO BOY, 25 Years Later: A Conversation with Jeff Spitz

CHE Director Will Brockliss sits down with documentary filmmaker Jeff Spitz to reflect on the twenty fifth anniversary of his film THE RETURN OF NAVAJO BOY. Their conversation spans partnering with the Navajo Nation, ethical filmmaking, and the significance this film had not only on uranium cleanup in Monument Valley, Utah, but on one family who lives there.

a diver swims under the ocean with a school of small fish and yellow coral in the foreground, the sun filtering from above

Faculty Favorites: Environmental Care

Edge Effects invites scholars from different disciplines to introduce texts on care with the environment. These books also offer varied entries to multispecies and pluriversal topics in the classroom.

An clear-cut field with muddy ground used for monocropping, some trees in the distance.

Mourning Waste in the Anthropocene

Sophie Chao traces how Marind People of West Papua suffer the effects of monoculture toxicity while also mourning for the waste it produces.

A black rhino stands alone in a grassland savannah

Conserving Biodiversity without Preserving Settler Ecologies

Charis Enns & Brock Bersaglio use Laikipia County, Kenya to trace connections between settler colonial power and conservation, offering an “other” way of maintaining biodiversity that prioritizes Indigenous Peoples and their endangered livestock species.