The indigenous attribution of agency
In the indigenous worldview, vegetal life is granted agency and even personhood.
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
- see also: we are collaborative compound organisms, impossible to exist separately from one another
- furthermore: animism is a dynamic, relational structure, open, efficacious, and above all, relational
- see also: think in ecosystems, not systems
- future connections: sovereignty is different than anthropomorphism