Maureen Buchanan is an Anishinaabe Kwe, a member of the local urban Indigenous community of Kingston and a member of the Batchewana First Nation near Sault Ste. Marie. Maureen has lived in Kingston for 30 years and raised her family. She, like many others in her community, through volunteerism, has worked to create small spaces of urban indigenous visibility, community connectedness, cultural sharing and language learning. She is a founder of the Kingston Indigenous Languages Nest and a founding director of the All Our Relations Land Trust. The talk will describe a local land-based project in which urban Indigenous people and allies have put into practice an evolving practice of land stewardship based on a worldview of sacred relations with our ecological kin and informed by Western science. Given the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change, Maureen will discuss the actions of this group of volunteers over the last three years and what actions are on the horizon.
Comments are closed.
|
Categories
All
Archives
April 2024
|