Water is Medicine: Reimagining Water Security through Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Relationships to Treated and Traditional Water Sources in Yukon, Canada

摘要: There is growing acknowledgement that the material dimensions of water security alone are inadequate; we also need to engage with a broader set hydrosocial relationships. Indeed, more holistic approaches needed explain Indigenous peoples’ relationships including use traditional sources such as mountain creeks and springs. In this paper, seek reimagine through case study Tr’ondek Hwech’in’s both treated throughout First Nation’s territory in Yukon, Canada. Through community-based research interviews Elders other community members, examine importance for meeting important health requirements physical, spiritual cultural wellbeing. This intervention contributes ongoing debates about what it means secure safe affordable three key ways: First, argue relations invite shift towards understanding security; second, contend settler colonial politics should be understood root cause insecurity; finally, explore how Two-Eyed Seeing can applied an alternative ‘integration’ Western scientific drinking water.