Gathering fromWithin: Indigenous Nationhood and Tanya Lukin Linklater’s Woman and Water

This dossier contribution focuses on Alutiiq performer Tanya Lukin Linklaterʹs Woman and Water. It examines how the piece creates the opportunity for an experience of a way of being in the world, in intimate interconnection with one another, the land and other animals, and the experiences oftime that this intimacy compels, that differs from the models of affiliation presumed in understandings of ʹnation statesʹ generally referenced by contemporary academic discussions of nationalism and transnationalism.