What’s going on out on the land?

To Know The Land Means To Support Those Whose Land It Is We Are On.

To Know The Land Means To Support Those Whose Land It Is We Are On.

Earth Day Reflections : What do settler facilitators of interspecies communications, instructors of landbased skills, and “ancestral practices” think when confronted by the notion that these skills and teachings do not directly contribute to the decolonial projects of indigenous peoples? How can we work towards supporting struggles for #landback and indigenous sovereignty on their ancestral homes?

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Striving For Kithship
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Striving For Kithship

What is implied by Kithship? What do I mean by kith when I sing out the word with the kids in my classes? How does it relate to building intimacy and knowledge of the land?

It's hard as a settler to describe relationships with land, especially when striving for relationships that are better than the conventional ones of my ancestors. How do we create better relationships and how do we name those relationships in honest ways that acknowledge them while not claiming something that isn’t? More questions, but some small moves towards understand.

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