Storying Land

A new podcast about how story mediates our relationship with land

Greetings folks.

Some of you may know Sage Armitage: indigeous matriarch, educator, decolonial thinker, and nerd in the best possible ways. Her and I met at the Q’ushin’tul event here on Salt Spring in the summer.

We got comparing indigenous place names to colonial ones, noticing that the former speaks about the land, the latter about the human who named the land. So we got talking about how story mediates our relationship with land.

It was such a rich and interesting conversation that we ended up putting togetehr a 4-part podcast miniseries called Storying Land, recorded while walking around sacred places on the island.

I’d be glad if y’all have a listen, and so others get this chance, to share it around. This is part 1, and may well lead to more exploration of storied relationships with land here in the salish sea, as well as those back in old europe.

Here are the listening links:

A bit more about the podcast...

Storying Land is about how we humans relate to the land through stories: whether myths from Turtle Island or abroad, a story of resources, personal experiences with land, and others.

And also how the land is also doing their own storying of us.

This is for people seeking rootedness

For settlers who want to learn the stories of where they live, and where their ancestors lived, and how those might be in conversation with each other.

For indigenous folks who are wondering how their cultural stories of land may exist alongside modern stories, or overcome them, or synergise together.

For those looking into the future to see how we might live in a mythical, and scientifically informed, relationship with land.

This is for people who wish to listen to place.

For those whose spirituality and science refuse to stay separate.

Fr the menders of broken stories.

For educators, artists, and caregivers working with land as teacher.

For those who feel the land years for us as much as we for the land.

Best wishes,

Theo