Human graduation ceremony offers a template for honoring other species.

Evidence

But imagine standing by the river, flooded with those same feelings as the Salmon march into the auditorium of their estuary. Rise in their honor, thank them for all the ways they have enriched our lives, sing to honor their hard work and accomplishments against all odds, tell them they are our hope for the future, encourage them to go off into the world to grow, and pray that they will come home. Then the feasting begins. Can we extend our bonds of celebration and support from our own species to the others who need us? — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 915

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly extends the ‘grafting’ essay’s frame of extending kinship/reciprocity metaphors across old boundaries — ceremony as infrastructure of belonging.
• FICTION: A graduation ceremony staged for spawning salmon could anchor a speculative story about a community whose defining civic rite honors a nonhuman species.
• XREF: connects to: Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging to family, people, and land — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 133