The Universes We Let Disappear

The passenger pigeon and the Indigenous peoples of Eastern North America shared a landscape where forests, rivers and seasonal migrations shaped life for countless generations. A bird once so abundant that it filled the sky disappeared within a few decades through industrial hunting and habitat destruction. At the same time, Indigenous communities experienced displacement and the loss of ancestral lands. This imagined encounter remembers a continent transformed by the disappearance of both wildlife and human connections to place.