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Do You See It Too?: Relationality in Pacific Northwest Sea Serpent Lore
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 52, Number 4, December 2019
- pp. 127-148
- 10.1353/mos.2019.0042
- Article
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Abstract:
Arguing that the reactions to sea serpent stories reveal some key differences in the world-views and lifeways of Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents of the Pacific Northwest, this essay examines how the epistemology of relationality contests hierarchical binaries, attempted cultural erasure, and ownership of place.