Decolonising Water—Decolonising Personhood—Decolonising Knowledge: A Tlingit and Tagish perspective

• Main Authors: Hayman, Eleanor, James, Colleen, Wedge, Mark
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Decolonising, Tlingit, Tagish, Water, Personhood, Knowledge production, Carcross/Tagish First Nation, Yukon Territory, Tlingit and Tagish water legislation, Water Ethics, Rights of Nature, Earth Jurisprudence; Yukon; Canada; Tagish; Carcross; tlingit
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4483988; https://zenodo.org/record/4483988

One meaning of the word Tlingit is “people of the tides”. Immediately this identification with tides introduces a palpable experience of the aquatic as well as a keen sense of place. It is a universal truth that the human animal has co-evolved over millennia with water or the lack of it, developing...