Wëlamàlsëwakàn (Good Health): Reimagining the Right to Health through Lenape Epistemologies

Human rights have historically advanced an anthropocentric world view that reinforces the right to health of human beings, disconnected from the health of nonhuman nature and what the Lenape people refer to as Kahèsëna Hàki (Mother Earth). For the Lenape and other American Indian nations, as well as many Indigenous communities globally, the border between the body and the earth, between human and nonhuman, is more fluid than in Western knowledge systems. Here, Ahmed et al examine the Lenape understanding of health.