Temporal Movements as Agency in an Arctic Landscape : Vuntut Gwitchin traditional territory ...

• Main Author: MacDaniel, Jessica
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The University of British Columbia 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Gwitchin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0378801; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0378801

The praxis of people who work with land and physical spaces that can be inhabited should carry a growing weight in an age that requires sustainable design that is responsive to place and inclusive to values of reconciliation. I cannot and would not want to tell anyone what reconciliation is, but I believe it is a continuous working process that involves cross-cultural understanding, perspective and sensitivity. This involves comprehensive, meaningful and long-term engagement with people indigenous to the land. Being a white settler and landscape architecture candidate I wanted to become more cognizant of implications of how I consider working with the land. A large reason that I took this project on was to learn about landscape from people whom have deep ancestral connections to the land, of which cannot be replicated. Research leading up to this project underwent three ethics reviews, one that was from the Heritage Committee in Old Crow. I chose this location due to having spend a portion of my early adult ...