Siksika and the Grammar of Becoming

The Siksika language offers a worldview organized around motion, relation, and event rather than fixed objects. Meaning is carried primarily through verbs, with nouns functioning as temporary stabilizations of ongoing processes rather than as fundamental building blocks of reality. What appears in English as a thing is, in Siksika, more often understood as something happening, something unfolding, or something in relation.

This verb based orientation shifts perception away from static categories and toward participation in movement. Identity is not treated as a stable essence but as something continuously enacted. Time is not a linear container in which events occur, but an active field shaped by cycles, recurrence, and situational presence. Language does not describe a world already there; it tracks changes, relations, and transformations as they arise.

Writing inspired by Siksika is less concerned with naming and more concerned with attunement. It asks what the world is doing rather than what the world is. In this way, language becomes less a tool for representation and more a means of entering into the flow of experience itself.

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