This paper explores how connectivity to place has brought life to contemporary environmental struggles in what is now known as New York State. Layers of memory, colonization, and stewardship are embedded within a community's relationship with their environment. By focusing on two case studies, the authors will illustrate how this relationship shaped successful place‐based resistance. Throughout our work, we offer the alternative methodology of ecocentric storytelling and artistic representation to elevate the voice of both ecosystems and all their inhabitants. Both case studies are centered on environmental/social movements that foreground the inherent personhood of the natural world. The first will focus on the Ashokan Reservoir, in the Catskill Mountains, on land guarded by the Lenape. It is a location that has suffered multiple waves of colonization and successfully resisted a large damming operation. The second case study will be centered on the Upper St. Lawrence River/Kaniatarowanénhne Watershed, Haudenosaunee Territory, where rural communities are uniting to grant Rights to the Rivers that bring life to their communities. Both cases exemplify the story of communities that defended their livelihoods and environments by uniting with their most reliable allies, the Water, and all their more‐than‐human guardians.

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流域发声：纽约北部环境运动中生态系统的声音☆


本文探讨了与地方的连通性如何为现在被称为纽约州的当代环境斗争带来活力。记忆、殖民和管理的层次嵌入到社区与其环境的关系中。通过关注两个案例研究，作者将说明这种关系如何塑造成功的基于地方的抵抗。在我们的整个工作中，我们提供了以生态为中心的故事讲述和艺术表现的替代方法，以提升生态系统及其所有居民的声音。这两个案例研究都以环境/社会运动为中心，这些运动突出了自然界的内在人格。第一个项目将集中在卡茨基尔山脉的阿育王水库，位于莱纳佩人守卫的土地上。这个地方遭受了多次殖民浪潮，并成功抵制了一次大规模的筑坝行动。第二个案例研究将集中在 Haudenosaunee 地区的 Upper St. Lawrence River/Kaniatarowanénhne 流域，那里的农村社区正在联合起来授予对河流的权利，为他们的社区带来生机。这两个案例都体现了社区通过与最可靠的盟友 Water 和所有超越人类的守护者联合起来来捍卫他们的生计和环境的故事。