#tagish

[urfaveisnative]

ENA from the ena series is native!

The ƎNA are Native! ƎNA is Tagish and ƎNA is Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in!

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Healthy looking black bear snacking on dandelions on the way home yesterday.

[astranemus]

Scott draws a contrast between the radically simplified designs for natural environments forwarded by "high modernist" developmental state elites and the wide array of practical skills and acquired intelligence that emerge from local actors who are pressed to adapt to a con stantly changing natural and human environment at the social grassroots. In Scott's telling (1998: 7) the value of mētis [practical and improvisational knowledge] lies less in the breadth and depth of techno-scientific knowledge than "in the limits, in principle, of what we are likely to know about complex, functioning order" Invoking the example of Odysseus, who was frequently praised for his cunning intelligence, and for have made ample use of it to outwit his enemies and make his way home, Scott highlights the value of classic Greek narratives of resilience and adaptation in the face of uncertainty and unpredictability in a manner uncannily like what we find in both the early and enduring Raven myths of the North Pacific and classical China. Like Odysseus, ultimately, Raven teaches us that humans, or other pretentious beings, cannot single-handedly engineer their futures or know all the critical thresholds, boundaries or safe spaces of the complex systems in which they dwell.

Raven suggests we must recognize and respect, as Gaia theory and most indigenous cosmologies hold, that earth systems' responses are contingent in part upon anthropogenic stimuli. Wallace Broecker, a preeminent climate scientist, put it this way: "The climate is as an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks," an analogy Julie Cruikshank's (2005: vii) animistic Tlingit and Tagish informants could readily identify with in terms of their own intersubjective view of glaciers, which "listen" and respond to humans in a moral way. Indeed such conceptualizations confirm that earth's complex systems collectively comprise not only a kind of colossal being - a beast - but one capable of listening, and of being seriously insulted and reactive if per turbed by human activity (be it consciously directed or not). This is the anarchic stuff of Raven stories. Of course, the reaction is contingent on the level of insult; and our ability to respond appropriately is contingent upon our ability to recognize what constitutes an insult as opposed to an acceptable level of manipulation (as in Raven pricking the Old Woman of the Tides), and adjust our behavior accordingly.

In short, Raven teaches us, through his accomplishments and failings, how we must become aware and respectful of the contingency and integrity of human-environmental relations. He does not accomplish this through high moralism against human profligacy as an environmental Jeremiad, or through the high managerialism of the Technofix Earth Engineer, or by reenchanting scientific knowledge as New Genesis proponents seek to do. Rather, Raven demonstrates - sometimes with humor and sometimes with hubris - his own capacity to adapt to the exigencies of life he faces and dynamic reactions he catalyzes in a world in which critical thresholds are often exceeded.

Thomas F. Thornton and Patricia M. Thornton, The Mutable, the Mythical, and the Managerial: Raven Narratives and the Anthropocene

[salvadorbonaparte]

Part 2 of (grizzly) bear in different languages of North America inspired by @ancesters

Shashchō - Tā̀gish (Tagish)

Shär Cho - Häł gołan (Hän)

Daxpitcheetáale - Apsáalooke (Crow)

χawgəs - ʔayajuθəm (Homalco)

Kiláwnaʔ - Nsyilxcən (Okanagan)

Náṇ - Haíɫzaqvḷa (Heiltsuk)

Likin̓skw - Nisg̱a’a (Nisga'a)

Lak'insxw - Gitsenimx̱ (Gitxsan)

Dlēze - Denek’éh (Slavey)

Shas - Dakeł (Dakelh)

Sources

First Voices

Crow Dictionary Online

Various dictionaries in the MEGA folder

Native Languages

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Dog walk cut short due to wildlife. Gertie treed a lynx and we saw a porcupine booking it across the marsh. Not pictured: the juvenile moose we startled off the side of the road.

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Found bear shit on the dog walk today. Needless to say we didn’t wander around in the bush for nearly as long as normal lol. A crocus was blooming adjacent to the pile and if that isn’t a metaphor for life I don’t know what is.

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Spring is here, the swans are back 🦢

[spockvarietyhour]

Tagish Post, North-West Mounted Police post circa 1896–99