Lecture on INDIGENOUS LAND GUARDIANSHIP

[David Seljak]

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David



RE-STORYING THE MEDICINE LINE AS INDIGENOUS LAND GUARDIANSHIP
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Native spiritual practices have always been about land. Today, First Nations groups in Canada and the US are engaged in significant political, cultural, and spiritual work to reclaim ancestral lands and their traditional roles as land guardians.  At a time of profound climate disruption and converging crises, First Nations leaders are asserting and renewing their sacred relationships with other-than-human kin like totem animals and elements like water and fire. The revitalization of land guardianship roles and practices is often characterized as protecting the medicines of the land so that they can continue to give life to all of creation. This movement is a claim to territorial and spiritual sovereignty.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
[Melissa Nelson]

Melissa K. Nelson is an ecologist and Indigenous scholar-activist. She earned her Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California, Davis. Formerly a professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, she is now a Professor of Indigenous Sustainability at Arizona State University in the Global Futures Laboratory. She is a contributor and co-editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability (2018). She is Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe/Métis.


Date/Time: Friday, November 12, 2021 - 7:30pm
Location: Online



David Seljak
Professor and Chair
Department of Religious Studies
Faculty of Arts
University of Waterloo

200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON  N2L 3G1

226-747-5812 (work cell, preferred)
519-884-8111, ext. 28232 (office)

The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is centralized within our Indigenous Initiatives Office<https://uwaterloo.ca/human-rights-equity-inclusion/indigenousinitiatives>.

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