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CRITICAL UNDERSTANDINGS 

of Land & Water: Unsettling Place at SFU

I recently produced a film series titled, “Critical Understandings of Land & Water: Unsettling Place at SFU”, which aims to examine the praxis of land-based education. The film series is guided by Q’um Q’um Xiiem, Dr. Jo-ann Archibald’s Indigenous Storywork Methodology (2008) to bring forward an important collection of stories on land-based education in collaboration with respected Coast Salish Knowledge Holders and Simon Fraser University faculty:​

  • Margaret and Michelle George of the Səl̓ílwətaɬ Nation

  • Latach-Maurice Nahanee of the Skwxwú7mesh Nation

  • Kwes’Kwestin, Jim Kew of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm Nation

  • Cyril and Ed Pierre of the q̓íc̓əy̓ Nation

  • Xwopokton, Chief Harley Chappell of the Səmyámə 

  • Sqwayeten, Cheryl Gabriel q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ Nation

  • Naxaxalhts’i, Sonny McHalsie, Stó:lō Nation

  • Shoysqwelwhet, Dr. Gwendolyn Point of the Stó:lō Nation

  • Dr. Cher Hill, Faculty of Education

  • Dr. Adel Iskander, School of Communication

  • Dr. Sheri Fabian, Criminology

  • Dr. Mark Winston, Senior Fellow of the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue

I am honoured to begin collaborating with settler scholar, Dr. Jeannie Kerr who joins me as a
co-investigator for a research project that aims to study the educational effects of the series. The series contains three short oral editorial films by Dr. Amy Parent, Noxs Ts’aawit and nine films with respected Coast Salish Elders and Knowledge Holders featuring oral stories on the ways local Nations have used the land and waterways that the three Simon Fraser University (SFU) campuses now occupy. There are also four films by SFU faculty members’ efforts at enacting decolonizing and land based pedagogical practices. 

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