Across the world, Indigenous people share something in common: connection to land and our Ancestral territories. We all carry a relationship to land; to the place that we call home and the places that carry us. The question “What stories does the land hold?” inspired Christine Luckasavitch, Algonquin Anishinaabekwe, to publish a series of essays by Indigenous writers, artists, and leaders in collaboration with editor Katherine Kassouf Cummings at the Center for Humans and Nature, as part of the Center’s Questions for a Resilient Future. In this series, readers find the stories of the land that we carry with us and that guide us through our lives; stories that connect us to land, to each other, and to all of our relations. In this session, Christine and Katherine invite you to reflect on the question “What stories does the land hold?” as they share in a conversation about our relationships to land and home.
Thursday, February 2, 2023
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Presenters

Center for Humans and Nature
Christine Luckasavitch is Madaoueskarini Algonquin and mixed settler, living in her ancestral territory at the headwaters of the Madawaska River. Her work is centered around creating spaces for Indigenous peoples to share their knowledges, both in physical and digital spaces, and encouraging the re-emergence of ancestral kinship ties. She is the owner of Waaseyaa Consulting and Waaseyaa Cultural Tours, two small businesses dedicated to reviving and celebrating Indigenous ancestral knowledge and culture-based practices through educational opportunities. She is the co-owner of Algonquin Motors, a woman-led motorcycle clothing company that celebrates the land now also known as Algonquin Park. Christine is a graduate of Acadia University, and she is currently finishing her Masters Degree at Trent University, her thesis offering a critique of Algonquin Park as a wilderness space and the continued impacts on her Algonquin community. She is also working on her first book, centred around the history of Madaoueskarini Algonquins. Christine was an Editorial Fellow with the Center for Humans and Nature in 2021, during which she published the question "What stories does the land hold?". She is a member of the Center for Humans and Nature Editorial Advisory Board (2023–2025).
Katherine Kassouf Cummings
Center for Humans and Nature

Center for Humans and Nature
Katherine Kassouf Cummings is a Lebanese American writer and editor born to and living on the ancestral homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires (Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa) as well as the Menominee, Miami, and Ho-Chunk nations. She co-edited the book What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and serves as Managing Editor of digital publications at the Center for Humans and Nature, where she leads the Questions for a Resilient Future and the Editorial Fellows program. She received her BA from Emory University, and she is an alumna of the University of Chicago’s program in editing.