Continuing Momentum into 2023
A message of encouragement and gratitude for those supporting the Sacred work that Survivors and Indigenous communities are leading to recover the children who were never returned home from Indian Residential Schools.
Indigenous Leadership
Designing with Two-Eyed Seeing
When you take on the role of a professional designer, it’s your responsibility to support people’s visions in a way that is authentic and true to who they are. That often requires a designer to research and become knowledgeable in various topics, but sometimes, we as designers can misrepresent the work when we are not …
Decolonizing Conservation
There is a quote from Mary Brave Bird, a Lakota woman, writer, and activist, that has always stood out to me. She said “The land is sacred. The land is our mother, the river is our blood.” For millennia, Indigenous peoples have been expertly managing the lands and waters that settlers call Canada and North …
The “R” Word
Up until recent years, the white, western research tradition has been used to shape narratives around Indigenous peoples in order to support and perpetuate the colonial agenda.