Hunting with Amnesia: Remembering Our Responsibilities to Indigenous Lands
<p>The notion of extending rights beyond humanity is hardly new, and from the beginning the act entangled us in responsibilities. In <em>Becoming Kin</em>, Ojibwe writer Patty Krawec describes the Anishinaabe myth of a flood unleashed upon societies who neglected to care for one another and all Creation. A surviving human, cast adrift, was saved by a muskrat who gave his life to dredge up a pawful of mud. A congregation of animals gathered to use this gift to fashion solid land. Through this cooperative caregiving, humanity was welcomed into a new world, reborn in solidarity among all species.</p>
<p>The stories we tell shape our relationship with the world and the values we hold dear. With colonial invasion, contrasting creation stories swept across North America.</p>
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