Enacting Indigenous Ontologies

This essay argues that motivations behind the “ontological turn” in environmental anthropology and the environmental humanities will only be satisfied through the rematriation of Indigenous ancestral homelands. The argument follows from the simple intuition that it is one thing to read about, or even become _knowledgeable about_ human-land relations, and it is quite another thing to live it. The article asks several challenging questions for the literature on Indigenous ontologies before concluding that the best way to enact these ontologies on the land is to return it.