Doctors and Professors Aren't the Professors of the Land

In this paper, Splatsin Elder Nuxnuxskaca cts'e7i7elt (Julianna Alexander) reflects on the state of our environment. In these reflections, Nuxnuxskaca cts'e7i7elt suggests that all life is connected and that a holistic understanding of those connections is an effective way to understand human wellbeing, explain poor health, and describe environmental change. The paper is presented in the voices of all authors, including those of Tad McIlwraith and Natali Euale Montilla, who are both academically trained in anthropology but are learning about Nuxnuxskaca cts'e7i7elt's perspectives through interviews, informal conversations, and trips on the land. It introduces Sáwllkwa (Water) as an author and motivator for these reflections. All authors contribute their expertise to this work and, in doing so, remind us that academic presentations of Indigenous practices are valuable because they can extend conversations creatively. Yet, wordy academic statements like this can be ineffective at expressing and conveying lived experiences (Marcus 1986, 264–65). In sum, the paper presents Nuxnuxskaca cts'e7i7elt's views of the interconnected environment within a multi-authored and collaborative presentation

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