ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about water which is understood and celebrated within the Tlingit language and Tlingit/Tagish culture. It is also a commentary on the dominant vision of water that is gendered, narrow, and naturalized within global water governance rhetoric, a water often referred to as modern water. The chapter identifies a problematic relationship between indigenous philosophy and notions of feminism(s) implicit within feminist political ecology. It illustrates how modern water is a complex blend of gendered and historical narratives, persuasive in defining and influencing global level discourses about water control, management, and governance. Narrative ecologies describe the dynamic social life of stories that reflect and co-evolve with ecological conditions. The chapter considers slow activism to be the counter-story to Nixon's slow violence, which envisions as the gradual, often invisible violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, and oil spills that exacerbates the vulnerability of ecosystems.
