Tag: land

Crazy, right? How does Mama Wintar leave Wintar? What kind of mother abandons her child? When I was younger, my mum used to tell me this story. In a certain land, there were two women and there was a famine. One had a son while the other had about 9 children. The woman with the son would go in se...

Beringia, an ancient land bridge that formerly united Asia and North America, had a significant impact on Earth’s natural and human history. Beringia, which stretches from Siberia to Alaska, formed during the last glacial period, allowing plants, animals, and later humans to migrate. Be...

Pull a couple of things together and before you know it you created some Art For Art’s Sake, not necessarily portraying something real or even meaningful. Yet the simple act of adding things together, creating a new outcome, delivers a synergistic result — hopefully something p...

The sun is shining on the Secwepemc First Nation territory in British Columbia, Canada. Grizzly bears and deers run freely in the region. The rivers that cross this pristine land are home to salmon — a crucial source of food to the Indigenous communities that call this region home. But this be...

Tkaronto is a Mohawk word meaning “the place in the water where the trees are standing” from which the name Toronto originated (an ironic tip of the hat to Indigenous languages while we take their land…). Exploring the 20 sites in the Tkaronto game on my phone reminded me just how...

I started with what I could find on the subject. On Medium, I found only one article, this one by Jim Stump from 2021, which outlines some useful cautions, well worth examining. But all issues evolve, and here are some recommendations that go beyond talking about what land acknowledgements shou...

The concept of Pardes in Kabbalistic and Jewish thought offers a deeper framework for interpreting the Hebrew Bible through multiple layers of meaning. This approach, deeply rooted in mystical traditions and in Judaism often attributed to the Kabbalist Moses DeLeon, aligns with the medieval Chris...