In the Spirit of Right and Respectful Relations: Conversations about Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being in Nature

Given the rising climate anxiety and the relentless environmental and biodiversity crisis, it is increasingly difficult to envision or have hope for a way forward for all our relations and future generations. A new Indigenous-led approach to ensure equal, respectful, and productive conversations and solutions between Tribes and other invested partners, communities, and government entities is emerging.

In The Spirit of Right and Respectful Relations promotes dialog with Indigenous Peoples to increase understandings, build relationships and momentum, and inspire action to support, protect, and restore our region’s imperiled lands, waters, life, and lifeways.

This book was inspirited from a gathering on Orcas Island where those present spoke from the heart and the mind on raising up Indigenous voices, narratives, and knowledge to help others re-imagine their relationship with Nature and preserve our shared Earth. The worldviews and lifeways from this gathering are generously shared in this book.

Published by Braided River with Se’Si’Le.

Se’Si’Le utilizes Indigenous ancestral knowledge for the benefit of our Mother Earth, Indigenous lifeways, and for future generations and to promote the understanding of Indigenous ways of knowing the nature of Nature. Se’Si’Le is the Lummi Indian word for “our grandmother.”

Braided River believes in the persuasive power of images and stories and commits in good faith and with humility to protecting wild and sacred lands and waters in the spirit of conscious collaboration.