Urban Land Knowledge: Reflecting on Stories of Place

Colonial narratives in North American cities overwrite Indigenous people’s laws, jurisdiction, knowledge systems, and governance systems. Métis-Cree community planner and filmmaker Kamala Todd shares her own cultural teachings and place-based learnings from growing up in the territories of the Skwxwú7mesh-speaking people (aka Vancouver), and working as a community planner, filmmaker, and educator. For those whose ancestors are elsewhere, what are our responsibilities to the Indigenous lands we occupy and make decisions for?