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Reading Recs
Suggested reading for folks interested in anti-colonial Indigenous science and heritage, cultural land management, and related spatial-temporal theory.
Pollution is Colonialism
Max Liboiron
How do we, as scientists, position ourselves to the lands we find ourselves in? Liboiron advocates for Indigenous anti-colonial frameworks across land-based sciences. Critique of extractive colonial science is detailed with support of relational, reciprocal, and reflective practices as paths forward.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
An essential of decolonial science. Kimmerer demonstrates the beauty, intimacy, and personhood of plants which provide for us. Rooted in Indigenous science, we learn the harm of extraction as well as how we can practice respect and reciprocity with and for the natural world in our day to day.
Wisdom Sits in Places
Keith H. Basso
In this classic ethnography, Basso shares the knowledge of several Apache tribes and their intimate connections to place. "Sense of place" across the land is thoughtfully described as both individual and cultural, based on deep understandings of history, knowledge, experience, and emotion.
Being Together in Place
Soren C. Larsen & Jay T. Johnson
Through a set of international case studies, Larsen and Johnson investigate power relations between Indigenous and colonial nations as human actors, and place as a non-human actor. How does the understanding of place as a being of agency lead us to co-existence within it?
Beyond Settler Time
Mark Rifkin
How does our understanding of time shape our understanding of Indigenous people? Through media analysis, Rifkin illustrates the ways non-native settler time asserts itself as naturally dominant while freezing Indigenous societies in time-- societies who experience time in dynamic and differing ways.
Dispossessing the Wilderness
Mark David Spence
Drawing attention to a conflict-ridden history, Spence details the establishment of U.S. National Parks at the expense of Indigenous lives and livelihoods during early forced migration. We are reminded that even our most "pristine" lands are intimately tied to and shaped by colonial violence.
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