Place-based kinship duties anchor indigenous refusal to relocate

Evidence

We have always been here. We do not care for any other place…. We have always lived here. We would rather die here. Our fathers did. We cannot leave them. Our children were born here—how can we go away? If you give us the best place in the world, it is not so good as this…. This is our home…. We cannot live anywhere else. We were born here and our fathers are buried here…. We want this place and no other. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 689

Categorization

• SHARE: The Cecilia Blacktooth testimony is a vivid primary quote worth sharing with anyone teaching land, kinship, or dispossession.
• XREF: Feeds the Eco-Justice settler-colonial and land/place threads and could strengthen the burial-and-ancestors motif already present in the reader’s curatorial material. — connects to: Care for particular places and creatures sustains rather than blocks global concern — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 709; Native Americans cannot relocate away from environmental hazards as other citizens can; Legally confined Tribes cannot relocate away from environmental hazards — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 613 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Rootlessness drives tribes to claim kinship across dispersed territory rather than bounded nations #contradicts (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 590
• Indigenous scholars treat refusal and incommensurability as political correctives against oppressive forms of understanding #corroborates (0.70) — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 66