Wsitqamu’k
wsit-ah-MOO-uk
The earth, but understood as a living, interconnected totality rather than a surface or a resource. Not the planet as an object in space but the whole of the living world as an animate, relational presence.
Etymology
Mi'kmaw language, spoken in the Atlantic provinces of Canada and parts of Maine. Like aki, the word resists English translation because it refuses the separation of humans from the rest of the living world.
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