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“Every Tipi is different” – A gathering at the ‘Land of Dreams’
“Pick up that pole-end and hold it steady”, I heard a soft, yet commanding voice guiding a rag tag team of volunteers to set up a Tipi. Barely two days into my arrival at Calgary, things still seem surreal, yet somehow entering the ‘Land of dreams’ felt like entering a familiar ground. I joined the…
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Re-searching the meaning of “land-based learning” with Elder Herman Many Guns
With the presence of Elder Herman Many Guns (Piikani/Blackfoot), it feels as though the air, time, and people move differently – with more intentions and thoughtfulness. Elder Many Guns has generously offered generational wisdom and teachings at the Land of Dreams community gatherings, where many of Soil Campers participated and learned. The Elder once said,…
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Listen to the stories of the soil — What the soil compaction tells us about human relationships with the land
Drs. Kori Czuy (Manager, Indigenous Science Connections), Mathew Swallow (Associate Professor in Soil Sciences, Mount Royal University), and Miwa A. Takeuchi (Associate Professor in the Learning Sciences, University of Calgary) have collaboratively written an article published in The Conversation (later republished in the Globe and Mail, Phys.org, and Yahoo News). We post the original, preprint…
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Memories of Our Shared Walks: Remembering Dr. Cesar Andres-Miguel Suva
A tribute by Miwa Takeuchi, on behalf of all the collaborators of Soil Camp.In our project, we often walk together.We walk to feel the land and introduce ourselves to the land.We walk the city to feel inequity in visceral manners – inequity in the access to trees, to community gardens, and to transportation. When we lose…
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Respecting Traditional Territories and Cultures: The Use of Smudge during Soil Camp
By Liana Wolf LegEducation through land-based learning is a priority for those who have been running Soil Camp. Through bridging Indigenous knowledge and teaching to facilitators, youth, and children at the Soil Camp, we would like to have an opportunity to learn about the importance of respecting traditional roles of Indigenous Peoples of Canada; especially…
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Soil Camp 2021: Community partnership provides opportunities for refugee students to connect with the land
Re-posted from an UToday article published in 2021
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