A Mountain Made of Mirrors: Moving Critically Across Material and Embodied Contexts

Whether in environmental or material contexts, interpersonal or shared cultural spaces, the emphasis on consumptive rather than relational pathways for connection, creation, or engagement all tell the same story, one that speaks over the intentions and continuance of our worlds and our words. Centering yaktitʸutitʸu yaktiłhini worldview and language concepts, Sarah Biscarra Dilley offers reflections on relational intent, speaking from one’s own respective center of the world, intellectual exchange, and the practice of mirroring as an interwoven set of strategies to navigate a world shaped by tmonoʔqʰełhismuʔ [settlement, extraction] while (re)committing to the embodiment of being tʸu [balanced, good].