Indigenous Land with David & Saskia Vanderhoop

$100

Indigenous Land with David & Saskia Vanderhoop

All land on Turtle Island has been stolen and now what?

This presentation is geared towards non-indigenous people; all land on Turtle Island has been stolen and now what?

We will begin by sharing some uncomfortable truths of how we got here. We will talk about land as an indigenous identity, about the practice of land acknowledgment, and what could be next.

We like to unpack what land and land rematriation means to Sassafras and the Native Land Conservancy and describe some of the projects we are working on.

We hope to inspire other organizations and communities with these ideas, and point out the responsibility of nature mentoring organizations in educating the next generations in what it means to live on indigenous territory. We will close with Q&A and action suggestions.

David and Saskia Vanderhoop

David and Saskia Vanderhoop founded Sassafras Earth Education in 2005, a nonprofit organization located on Wampanoag ancestral lands.

David Vanderhoop, Aquinnah Wampanoag, was born and raised on the island of Noepe, currently known as Martha’s Vineyard. He has organized and facilitated webinars and conferences on topics like decolonization, truth in history, cultural appropriation, racism, and acknowledging the role of first people in outdoor education and beyond.

Saskia is from the Netherlands and has been involved with Nature Connection Mentoring for 25 years and is considered a bridger as a white person living in an Indigenous family.

Indigenous Land

(1h 07m 19s)
267 MB