Greater Victoria Acting Together and Programs in Earth Literacies are jointly hosting:

What is a Land Sharing Network?

Tuesday March 26, 6:30 pm online

Bob Montgomery and Emily Eaton from the Treaty Land Sharing Network https://treatylandsharingnetwork.ca/,  on the prairies, will tell us about this organized way for landholders to support access to land by Indigenous people as a way of upholding treaty obligations and/or respecting inherent Indigenous rights to unceded territory.   Most participating landholders there are farmers and ranchers.  In BC, there are additional possibilities—beach front landholders could share land for Indigenous people to harvest shellfish;  rural landholders could do so for access to cedar trees for stripping…  The  land sharing is for traditional uses such as hunting, fishing, food and medicinal plant gathering, ceremony and culture camps.

Bob Montgomery is of settler (Scottish) and Métis descent.  He is the Indigenous Engagement Coordinator for Beaver Hills Biosphere (near Edmonton).  Emily Eaton is a settler committed to finding ways to honor the treaties and right Canada's relationship with Indigenous peoples.  She is also an author, including being a co-author of The End of this World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada..

For more information and registration:  Click here-- https://www.earthliteracies.org/bob-montgomery-emily-eaton-what-is-a-land-sharing-network.