Falling with Heron

What does Heron teach about our time of turbulent multi-scalar issues like species extinctions, climate change, and related social injustices? In this article, I consider this question by engaging the changing presence of various Herons in the wetlands of southern Ontario, Canada, in a context of colonial and modern urbanizing processes that continue to have impacts. The teachings Heron offers goes beyond critical reflections on external ecological changes, for I also symbolically relate with its wetland home as a place in midst of the Kaswén:ta or Two Row Wampum. This early treaty between Indigenous Canoe and Colonial Ship was meant to situate us on our Common Waters in a way that can honor diverse ways. Though the subsequent colonial focus on conversion of people and creation would manifest an array of impacts, I am guided back to the Two Row as a model for bringing into dialogue Indigenous and conservationist understandings. It is in the still presence of Heron that different understandings and acts emerge on what it will take to sustainably respond to those colonizing ways that continue to fuel global scale issues like extinction and climate change

Archaeology · Climate change · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Geography · Heron · Honor · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · Sustainability · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Urban Green Space and Health · Ecology

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