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u/KanataTheVillage · 11 pointsr/onguardforthee

Orcas, chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins are some of the easiest to see. Four Orca nations off the coast of Vancouver– Northern and Southern Residents, Transients and Offshores. They each have different dialects and languages (hint: just because we do not understand a language does not mean it is not a language), have different cuisines and different traditions, have different kinship structures, etc. Where they live, the waters and those other relations who live there, are their countries.

Humans have states, but everyone has countries, and we all come from nations. Nations are the people-thing. They describe 'from birth' and the shared culture, heritage and stories.

Countries are the lands/waters toward which nations have relationships. Countries change and shift overtime, both in geologic terms and political terms. Think of the use of the term "country" in English, from Scottish Country to Basque Country to Hungarian Country to Tibetan Country to Yoruba Country to Swazi Country to Kurdish Country to Ainu Country to Māori Country to English Country to Québécois Country. Think further on how else we use country: Wolf Country, Salmon Country, Eagle Country, Black Bear Country, Rabbit Country, Emu Country, Giraffe Country, Cedar Country, Sweetgrass Country, Wheat Country, Corn Country, Sandstone Country, Granite Country. Even further to silly ones: Jesus Country, RV Country, Mountain Bike Country

We have just conflated the terms state with country and nation, but they mean different things

Here is a playlist of TED Talks, research videos and similar that should get you thinking about non-human persons

We all can easily agree that a) the world is going up in literal flames and there is a mass extinction event occurring at break-neck speeds and b) the systems that we have in place are those that are causing the global collapse (do I need to cite these or can I just trust this is mainstream enough? /r/collapse otherwise). Well, the system we have in place is inherited from previous systems? And previous systems have seen and are seeing fights to grant personhood → to women, to Indigenous/Turtle Islanders/First Nations/Natives, to Africans and Afro-descendants, to trans and queer folks, et al. Right, like this should be common knowledge, suffragettes and civil rights?

Why would folks think that personhood stops at humans?

Power got centralised to a tiny, tiny minority of light-skinned men, and in that progression of events, almost all life–especially humans–lost personhood. The right to life, to liberty, to freedom of access to that which one needs. And one needs inherited culture, language and stories. Ask any researcher of non-humans, and they will end up saying that [x animal/plant/life] has a unique or specific culture, speaks* in a specific dialect and creates stories out of the dance of life.

This seems wishy-washy, but it is not. Some folks (remember, life, not just humans) tell the stories back either to themselves and/or to others, some just live out their stories. * Language is not just oral, it is manual (think of American Sign Language or Auslan or Atgangmuurniq or Provisle or ProTactile); it is whistled, it is clicked, it is sung, it is danced. Language is complex, and linguistics is really starting to catch on now, slowly. But, watch that playlist and seriously tell any dolphin, elephant, orangutan, raven, orca researcher that those animals do not have language and watch them laugh and correct you.

Back to the structures and systems that got us here. Not only are they a product of that high degree of centralised power, but they are also hinged on misguided notions of superiority over others, over life. We cannot keep treating waters, trees, soils, minerals, fruits and plants, bears, cows and all the rest of our relations like "resources" natural or otherwise. We need to shift away from an ownership and loanership model to a guardianship and caretakership one, for what is ownership but [absolute] superiority over another part of life?

edit: if people are interested, I recommend – Unsettling Canada, A Rightful Place, Secwépemc People, Land and Laws and most relevantly Wild Law