The Anishinaabe people of Turtle Island [North America] have a teaching called the Seven Fire Prophecies, which clocks the history of our time on this land, from how we received our earliest teachings, through the arrival of the “light-skinned race,” through the loss of our ways. According to many of our teachers, we are now living in the time of the seventh fire, a time when there will be “a rebirth of the Anishinaabe nations and a re-kindling of the sacred fire.”The eight fire is an extension of the prophecies, a suggestion and a wish that now is the time for the Indigenous people and the settler communities to work together to achieve justice, to live together in a good way.—Yvette Nolan (Algonquin), Medicine ShowsIn many disciplines where it has become apparent that scholarship has been one of the key technologies of colonization, complicit in the exploitation and decimation of the land and its human and nonhuman inhabitants, there has been a (re)turn to ways of knowing that are not about power/knowledge—naming, disciplining, categorizing, objectifying, and isolating elements—but about relationality, reciprocity, respect, and what Opaskwayak Cree scholar Shawn Wilson discusses under the principle, shared across many Indigenous cultures, of “relational accountability.”

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《第八场火》

海龟岛 [北美] 的 Anishinaabe 人有一个名为七火预言的教义，它记录了我们在这片土地上的时代历史，从我们如何接受最早的教义，到“浅肤色种族”的到来，通过失去我们的方式。根据我们的许多老师的说法，我们现在生活在第七火的时代，一个“Anishinaabe 民族的重生和圣火的重新点燃”的时代。预言、建议和愿望，现在是土著人民和定居者社区共同努力实现正义，以良好方式共同生活的时候了。——伊薇特·诺兰（阿冈昆），医药展在许多学科中，很明显，学术是殖民化的关键技术之一，参与了对土地及其人类和非人类居民的剥削和毁灭，已经（重新）转向了解这些知识的方式。不是关于权力/知识——命名、约束、分类、客观化和孤立元素——而是关于关系、互惠、尊重，以及 Opaskwayak Cree 学者肖恩威尔逊根据许多土著文化共享的“关系责任”原则所讨论的内容。