The Flint Water Crisis was an avoidable, man-made disaster that will affect generations ofFlint residents and their descendants. By using the Indigenous teachings, framework, methodology, and heuristic of the 4Rs (more specifically—respect, relationship, responsibility, and reciprocity) to analyze the rhetorics of the Crisis, a path forward to a more ‘just’ future (Henry, 2022) is possible. As a decolonizing methodology, it follows the example others are setting. Like other decolonizing methodologies (Marshall, 2020; Smith, 1999; Wilson, 2008; Walter and Anderson, 2016), there is a commonality in how they are understood and applied— and the 4Rs are at the center of this understanding.
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