Thanks to the places that have welcomed me in and given me space to write, think, and respond. Thanks to the Pacific Northwest, Vancouver Island, and pockets of Victoria, B.C. May they retain their beauty as emplacing places, and may they foster more beauty; may we have the wisdom and courage to allow such places—and places everywhere—to become well-established and intense.

Thanks to my relations. My work is indebted to my friend Jarrad Reddekop. Our discussions have fueled many of my reflections. I’ve been influenced by informal discussions, but I’d be remiss to not cite his dissertation, which shows the depth of my debt to him.^[6]

Of course, while ideas emerge from relational contexts, they’ve passed through me, for better or for worse. Voices of others come through, but ventriloquized by me. – Thanks to my friends, my family, to my wife, to my daughter.

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[6] Jarrad Reddekop, “Thinking Across Worlds: Indigenous Thought, Relational Ontology, and the Politics of Nature; Or, If Only Nietzsche Could Meet a Yachaj” (PhD diss., Western University, 2014).