ABSTRACT
This monograph has attempted to offer glimpses of a potential interspecies cosmopolis based on the social imaginaries of inhabitants indigenous to Turtle Island, in which animals are persons in their own right. Linda Hogan's creative works have been used to exemplify a nonanthropocentric animal ethics that has practical consequences for human-animal wellbeing and collective survivance well beyond First Nations contexts. The most persistent message Hogan is sending through her activist literary works is probably this: that the achievement of a true human status depends, in the short run, on respect for, and obedience to, our animal ancestors; in the long run, however, the future may be tied to our ‘becoming animal.’
