in a good way: (Re)grounding Contextual Narratives on Turtle Island

• Main Author: Lalor, Amina
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2020
• Subjects: decolonizing architecture; decolonization; architectural site analysis; reconciliation; land-based; land-based architecture; biskaabiyang; Indigenization; Indigeneity and architecture; Indigenous contexts; settler colonialism; settler-colonial architecture; settler-colonial violence; architecture on Turtle Island; architecture in Canada; architecture in North America; decolonizing spatial design; Indigenous architecture; Métis architecture; Canada; Turtle Island; anishina*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/16066

Canada is a settler-colonial nation built on Indigenous lands. Architecture in this context is not a neutral practice. Together with urban planning, it has played a key role in the genocidal dispossession, displacement, and assimilation of Indigenous peoples by imposing private property, Euro-Wester...