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The indigenous attribution of agency

Updated Apr 10 2025

In the indigenous worldview, vegetal life is granted agency and even personhood, and is treated with respect and reverence accordingly.

Each creature is directly responsible for the well-being of many beings at many times, but not for all beings at all times, and these “overlap[ping] connections” sustain a community united not by its identity to itself, but by its complex, mobile, and interrelated differentiations. —Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Pantheologies



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