Amethyst First Rider, Leroy Little Bear, and Nayan Velaskar (Niitsitapi Pod Abundance Intelligence Group)

Curvature as Soundscape

Amethyst First Rider and Leroy Little Bear reflect on land-relational soundscape as the basis of abundant memory. Through selected stories depicting vibrant aspects of Siksikáí'tsitapi (Blackfoot) ways of being, they underline the importance of ancestral sound as an ethnoecological archive of Indigenous lifeways. They discuss the wealth of epistemic and metaphysical information reverberating within Indigenous language, drawing upon a lifetime immersed in the flux of Niitsi’powahsin (the Blackfoot language).