Concurrent Education Session

SUN-B05: Rematriate the Land: Our Obligations to Truth and Healing

Sunday, October 6, 2024

10:15am – 11:30am ET

Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 152AB

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, NY/HSW, FL

Lead Speaker(s)

Jose de Jesus Leal, ASLA

Principal and Director of Native Nation Building Studio
MIG, Inc.
Sacramento, California

Session Guide

Speaker(s)

Kenwani'cahee Kravitz, MLS (she/her/hers)

Native Nations Liaison
Southern Oregon University
Jacksonville, Oregon
Paul Fragua

Tribal Elder
MIG, Inc.
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge comprises foundational systems relating directly to the practice of cultural activities grounded by human interaction with the land and each other. Our obligations as landscape architects should be to facilitate the restoration and protection of cultural places while working to return Indigenous access to these lands.

Learning Outcomes:

Recognize why Indigenous communities are critical partners for biodiversity, resilience, and climate adaptation projects.
Promote strategies, policies, and partnerships for co-stewardship of public and private lands.
Understand how Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge is transferred, and how it is inseparable from the people and their culture, language, and spiritual identity.
Acknowledge how Indigenous peoples’ connection to land contributes to their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and how landscape architects can develop more culturally safe and meaningful environments.