Gina Brooks and I were invited to pull a short piece together for the Network in Canadian History & Environment after the inaugural Material Culture Collective gathering at Dalhousie University a few weeks ago. Thanks to Sara Spike for the invite to share.

“With this restoration, Gina wanted to renew a memory of this land as it was back then, a land that could hold caribou. She told Rachel that although Wolastokuk no longer holds caribou, it continues to hold caribou food – these common lichens that remain sensitive to air quality, including twenty-first-century pollution. In this sense, she explained, the land is lonely for the caribou and longs for their return.” [link]