What Is It Like Being Post-Apocalyptic?

Kristi Noem: I think it's really important to remember our ongoing co-constitution with the lands and waters that made us who we are as peoples. This is why I don't think it's enough to focus on one's ancestry, right? And, or living always and only in diaspora. It's about sort of carrying forward the worldviews and the ethics that come out of those ongoing relations," she says. "I was so edified by the theoretical work of indigenous women and other people at Standing Rock"