Indigenous hunting frames taking animal life as an honored ceremonial kinship sacrifice

Evidence

For many Indigenous Peoples, the act of taking the life of an animal requires a specific appreciation and honoring of the sacrifices that animals make for humans. This sensibility is practiced through ceremony and is an essential part of the knowledge system of Indigenous cultures that hunt. Animals transform themselves to become food and this is an ecological reality. However, it is also necessary to understand that the taking of life was always framed within a complex symbolic system recreated and enacted in the rituals, ceremonies, and traditions and creating a rich imagery and percep - tion of animals as part of a complex kinship system. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1639

Categorization

• XREF: Contrast-clarifies rather than romanticizes — directly relevant to the reader’s stated purpose of avoiding the accusation of romanticizing Indigenous knowledge. — connects to: Cultural identity for hunting peoples is defined by kinship relations with specific animals — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1648; Buffalo restoration is tied to restoring Native social and political structure — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 804; Animal species loss inflicts spiritual and psychological harm on Indigenous peoples — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1649 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Indigenous peoples share a cross-cultural canon governing how to take life #expands (0.78) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 642
• Animal species loss inflicts spiritual and psychological harm on Indigenous peoples #expands (0.75) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1649
• Indigenous views rank humans as younger siblings who must learn from plant elders #corroborates (0.72) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1272
• Anthropologists hold that destruction of the victim defines sacrifice #complicates (0.70) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 734