WELCOME

Indigenous-led Place Base Granting

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The ancestral knowledge and ways exist today and it is our responsibility to lead with and practice them - in the Long House, on the tə́ŋəxʷ | tumulhw, and with each other.

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Connection to place, to food, and to Indigenous ways of relating, being and speaking remind us of who we are (xʷílŋəxʷ | hulmulhw) and where we want to be (tə́ŋəxʷ | tumulhw). We are constantly finding ways to keep who we are intact and learn from our experiences.

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Colonial intrusion of Indigenous lands has dehumanized Indigenous cultures and sustenance economies, where definitions of wealth, currency, and value are undermined. Colonialism has introduced a foreign economy and currency to Indigenous lands and communities that has forced poverty into our lives. Money is a deliberate barrier imposed on Indigenous peoples as a tool of colonization.

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Our understanding of wealth, as Indigenous peoples, reflects the land itself, where our economies are based in abundance rather than exploitation and scarcity.

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