Land Relationships Super Collective 

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Co-organizers Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang

Years active

2015-Present

Abstract

The Land Relationships Super Collective was generated in 2015 by Tuck and Yang, whose collaborators are engaging in meaningful land-based education and decolonization practices together. The LRSC is a space and place of building relations with each community organization, co-creating with one another and actively emerging various ways of meaning-making, approaches to rematriation, and healing relationships with the land. Furthermore, five organizations are a part of the collective in different parts of Turtle Island (North America): Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, The Underground Centre, The Black/Land Project, Ogimaa Mikana and Métis in Space. To read more about the story of each organization, visit http://www.landrelationships.com/collaborators. The overall intention of this relational work is to further learn about the different relations to land, co-theorize together, activate forms of decolonizing knowledge systems, supporting one another with resources, and explore wise and best practices of researching.

Moreover, LRSC holds and creates a space with more-than-human kin. Collaborators also implement future planning and visiting with organizers and community collaborators to inform a relational pedagogy praxis. To learn additional information on LRSC, visit http://www.landrelationships.com/. 

Methods

2020 - 2025 Activities

Land Education Incubator

Returning Indigenous Land

Case studies informed by ethnographic methods, interviews, participant observation, focus groups, ‘extended case method’ (Burawoy, 1998), field notes, multiple coders, 

Youth In Relation to Returned Land 

Interviews, focus groups

Participatory visual activities:  photovoice, mapping 

2017 - 2019 Activities

Site Visits 

Recordings, interviews, focus groups  

2016 - 2017 Activities 

Recordings 

Gathering articles, videos, interviews and listening to existing recordings

Ethical Framework

The Land Relationships Super Collective is deeply-rooted in collaboration with all collaborators and organizers to decolonize and regenerate relationships to the land. The LRSC provides a space for building mutual support and strategy sharing for organizations actioning land-based work. 

Theories of Change

Theorizing together, land rematriation, land return, story-driven, collaboration, relationships to land 

Kinds of Evidence

Website, Photos, Notes from facilitation sessions, Voice Recordings, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Notes, Invitation Offerings, Interviews, Retreat Gatherings, Develop Programming and Curriculum 

Knowledge Mobilization 

Community-Based and Policy recommendations, Podcasting (The Henceforward Podcast), Publications, Conferences, Policy Recommendations Slides, Land Relationship Super Collective website, Youth programs and Workshops, Toolkits 

Keywords

Land, Rematriation, Decolonize, Relationships, Communities, Indigenous, Black, Co-Theroize, Collaboration 

Disciplines

Education, Indigenous Studies, Sociology, Law, Policy 

Significant Quotes

“My ancestors have always been here. That’s my blessing, my grandchildren’s blessing, that they were born on the land that their ancestors have always been on. And maybe my great grandchildren will be born here, too. Our umbilical cords are buried in this land. Our ancestors’ DNA is in this land. And we continue to stand our ground.”

Corrina Gould, Co-Founder/Director of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust

Retrieved from: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/purpose-and-vision/

Project activities funded by

Tuck and Yang’s speaker fees, William T. Grant Foundation, SSHRC Insight Grant and The Spencer Foundation