Land-Based Healing

The land is more than being outside. For Indigenous peoples the land is central to many roles within Indigenous ways of knowing and being. It is interconnected with the land, school, food, community, history, healing, culture, language, ceremony and more. The traditional lands of the people tell the stories shared throughout generations and plays a significant role in understanding the relationship between land and Indigenous peoples. Land based healing is a way to reconnect Indigenous peoples to Identity, community and culture. It is intricate throughout many stories and histories. 

Throughout colonization, Indigenous peoples have been systemically displaced from their traditionals territories and lands. This harm has been explicitly implemented through systemic racism in policy and law through residential schools, sixties scoop, loss of language, restriction of culture, ceremony and land based healing practices.The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report 2015 shares the truth experienced by residential school survivors calls to action to address the systemic harm caused by the Government of Canada and church institutions (read here).