Because This Land Is Who We Are : : Indigenous Practices of Environmental Repossession.

• Author: Richmond, Chantelle.
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (193 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- From across the Seas, We Are All Connected -- Who We Are and How This Book Came to Be -- Environmental Dispossession -- Environmental Repossession -- Indigenous Resurgence and the Need to Account for Environmental Repossession -- Book Outline -- Chapter 1 For All Our Kin: A Relational Understanding of Environmental Responsibilities -- Relational Ontology, Kincentric Ecology, and Kinship -- Anchoring Environmental Repossession in Our Own Relational Ontologies -- Kapu Aloha -- Kaitiakitanga-Land as Pedagogy and a wanaka at Wanaka -- Mino Bimaadiziwin: An Anishinaabe Philosophy for Living the Good Life (on the Land, in the City, and in the University) -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 2 The Practices and Praxis of Indigenous Environmental Repossession -- Occupations, Blockades, and Resistance Camps: Indigenous Direct Action as Repossession -- Vernacular Sovereignty in the Everyday -- Alliance-Making and Collaboration with Others -- Performative Action: Cultural Production and Indigenous Activism -- Chapter 3 Kūkulu: Pillars of Mauna Kea Exhibit -- … e welina mai nei … welcome … -- Kaʻi Kūkulu: He aha la he kūkulu -- Hānau Ka Mauna, the Mountain Is Born -- Historical Acts of Kānaka Resistance -- Ku Kiaʻi Mauna, Mountain Protectors Rise -- Kūkulu and Indigenous Repossession -- Kūkulu and Community Working Groups -- Oli Kūkulu -- Kūkulu as Evolving Kānaka Hawaiʻi Cartography -- Awakening Ancestral Alignments: Opening Day Performance -- Kūkulu and the Non-Kānaka Ally -- Kaʻi Kūkulu-Lasting Impressions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 4 Cultivating Boundary Crossers: Trespass Gardening in the Stonefields -- Learning Repossession -- Exclusion from Joint Cultural and Natural Heritage -- A Catalyst for More Assertive Activism: Ihumātao and the SHA -- Taniwha Club: Reclaiming Focus.

Training for Next-Gen Protestors -- Going Viral, Going Radical, and Going Legit -- Neo/Colonial Transgressions and Boundary (Re)Crossing -- He Mutunga -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 5 Gathering for Wellness in Biigtigong Nishnaabeg -- Introduction -- Gathering as Connection with Places, Knowledge, and People -- Nishnaabeg Research Creation -- Biigtigong Experiences of Dispossession and Impact on Wellness -- Biigtigong's Healing Movement -- Reclaiming Our Original Gathering Place at the Mouth of the Pic -- Moose Camp -- Bringing Our Women Back Home -- Being Anishinaabe Together Again -- Acknowledgments -- Conclusion-The Land Is Who We Are -- Centering Kinship Relationships and Care in Environmental Repossession -- Linking Direct Action to Everyday Practices of Environmental Repossession -- Affirming Indigeneity through Daily Renewal -- Indigenous Pedagogies and Leadership in Repossession -- Environmental Repossession as an Expression of Indigenous Rights -- Glossary of Indigenous Phrases -- Hawaiʻi Terms -- Nga kupu Māori -- Anishinaabe Terms -- References -- Author Biographies -- Index.