Weejeedamin: An Indigenous Land-based Futurity

Weejeedamin：一个基于土地的土著未来，是基于传统的土著土地实践和知识的城市土地共同管理战略的创新发展和应用。2019冠状病毒病大流行加剧了全国城市土著社区中许多不利于健康的社会决定因素。再加上在大流行开始时许多社区食品花园和城市公园关闭，这进一步强调了许多城市土著人民与土地的关系，特别是在长老和知识保管者要求增加收集和使用传统药物的时候。在当地基层土著社区组织已经完成的工作的基础上，该项目将允许我们的社区合作伙伴——基奇纳市、白猫头鹰土著祖先协会和Wisahkotewinowak城市土著花园集体——加强协调努力，创建一个33英亩的恢复项目，确保可持续的传统食品和药品，通过栖息地恢复和重新引入本地物种来增加当地的生物多样性。建设社区能力，调动知识，实行土地共同管理和相关农业实践。

Weejeedamin: An Indigenous Land-based Futurity, is the innovative development and application of urban land co-management strategies rooted in traditional Indigenous land-based practices and knowledges. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated many adverse social determinants of health within urban Indigenous communities across the country. Combined with the closure of many community food gardens and urban parks at the beginning of the pandemic this further stressed many urban Indigenous people's relationship with the land, especially in a time when Elders and Knowledge Keepers were asking for an increased collection and use of traditional medicines. Building on the work already accomplished by local grassroots Indigenous community organizations, this project will allow for an enhanced coordinated effort among our community partners - The City of Kitchener, White Owl Native Ancestry Association and the Wisahkotewinowak Urban Indigenous Garden Collective, to create a 33 acre restoration project securing sustainable, traditional food and medicines, increasing local biodiversity through habitat restoration and reintroduction of native species, building community capacity, mobilizing knowledge, and exercising land co-management and relational agricultural practices on the land.