Indigenuity
Indigenuity (Indigenous ingenuity): a description by Daniel Wildcat [1]
Indigenuity is the application of deep-spatial wisdom held by Indigenous Peoples, e.g., American Indians and Alaska Natives, to solve practical problems we face today. Indigenuity is the result of a People’s long intergenerational transmissions of experiential knowledge over millennia resulting from their attentiveness to the inextricable symbiotic nexus of human cultures and the ecosystems/environments that gave tribal Peoples their culture and identity. As such Indigenuity is a co-creation of humans and plants, animals, and other natural features of the world. Indigenuity frames solutions in terms beyond a singular fixation on rights and counterbalances those concerns with a recognition of inalienable responsibilities humankind has to our plant, animal, and other natural relatives with whom we share this planet. Indigenuity, an Earth-based deep spatial knowledge, that suggests the challenges of the Anthropocene might best be met by paying attention to what the Earth and all our relations can still teach humankind about living well in a kin-centric world – a world where human progress does not result in ecosystem degradation and destruction, but in creating systems of biosphere life-enhancement.