Indigenous nations have always and continue to assert their sovereignties to resist colonialism. This paper makes explicit the ways in which environmental management has been and continues to act as a tool of colonialism, particularly by privileging Western science, institutions, and administrative procedures. We argue that to decolonise environmental management, it is crucial to understand and challenge the power relations that underlie it—asking who makes decisions and on what worldview those decisions are based. Indigenous ways of being deeply challenge the foundations of environmental management and the colonising power structures that underlie it, and invite further thought about posthuman and relational ontologies. We provide a range of case studies that showcase the role of Indigenous nations in redefining and reimagining environmental management based on Indigenous sovereignties, knowledges, and ways of being. The case studies emphasise the crucial connection between Indigenous decision‐making authority and self‐governance for the enhanced protection and health of the environment. We argue that Indigenous agency, grounded in Indigenous governance and sovereignties, is driving innovation and decolonising environmental management by making space for new ways of thinking and being “in place”.

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土著主权：关系本体论和环境管理

土著民族一直并且继续维护自己的主权，以抵抗殖民主义。本文明确指出了环境管理已经并且将继续作为殖民主义工具的方式，特别是通过让西方科学，机构和行政程序享有特权。我们认为，要使环境管理非殖民化，理解和挑战其背后的权力关系至关重要-询问谁做出决定以及这些决定所基于的世界观。土著人的生存方式对环境管理的基础和构成其基础的殖民权力结构提出了挑战，并引发了对后人类本体和关系本体的进一步思考。我们提供了一系列案例研究，这些案例展示了土著民族在基于土著主权，知识和生存方式重新定义和重新构想环境管理中的作用。案例研究强调了土著决策权与自治之间的关键联系，以加强对环境的保护和健康。我们认为，基于土著人治理和主权的土著人机构正在通过为新的思维方式和“就地”留出空间来推动创新和非殖民化环境管理。