The indigenous attribution of agency
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
- 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