Can We Hear What the Land Is Saying? The Haudenosaunee Two Row Wampum and the Via Negativa as Postures for Listening

Daniel Coleman addresses the consumptive relationship with the more-than-human world that is the basis of settler colonial culture and economy, by investigating two under-valued traditions that could open up more reciprocal relationships with the land on which we live. The first of these is the Two Row-Covenant Chain Wampum agreement made in the seventeenth century between the Haudenosaunee and European settlers on the Hudson River, considered …