Wildcat writes that “indigenous thinkers not only acknowledge contingency and human’s lack of control in the world; they also see it as empowering and humbling, not something frightening.” If “empowering and humbling” sounds like a paradox, it’s because of how we normally conceive of power. In a worldview where power, agency, and experience are not bound by individual bodies but reside “in and through the relations and processes that constitute life,” the paradox dissolves.
