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Being Together in Place: Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World

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Being Together in Place explores the landscapes that convene Native and non-Native other 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 discover ways to articulate and defend their intrinsic and life-supportive ways of being, particularly to those who find themselves intent on damaging or destroying these places. 

Using ethnographic research and a geographic point of view, Soren C. Larsen and Jay T. Johnson show how the communities in these regions challenge the facility relations that structure the continued (post)colonial encounter in liberal democratic settler-states. Emerging from their conversations with activists was once a distinctive sense that the places for which they cared had agency, a “call” that pulled them into dialogue, relationships, and action with human and nonhuman others. This being-together-in-place, they find, speaks in a powerful technique 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 roughly “place thinking” is emerging at the borders of colonial power.

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