Indigenous relationships with the land are commonly informed and guided by a cultural ethic of 'responsibility-based thinking' . The Indigenous cultural ethic informs and mediates personal and collective conduct with a sense of duty or responsibility towards human and other-than-human relations . The Indigenous responsibility-based outlook stems from a cultural paradigm that understands that it is human beings who must learn to live with the land . This way of thinking instils in its adherents an inherent awareness that the other-than- human realm is capable of existing and thriving without humans. Thus, it is for our own sake  that we learn to live according to certain ever-shifting parameters, requiring us to remain acutely attuned to our physical surroundings. This Indigenous cultural precept is perhaps among the most significant contributions of Indigenous Peoples to the rest of humanity in the face of climate change.
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