How We Walk with the Land & Water

Documentary
Yukon, Canada | 28 min | 2024

Jewel Davis explores the mission and history of “How We Walk with the Land & Water,” an initiative developed collectively by the Carcross/Tagish First Nation, the Kwanlin Dün First Nation, and the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council, in 2017. The initiative is guided by Elders focused on indigenizing methods of “land-planning,” by gathering traditional knowledge, stories, and scientific data to help inform a new and sustainable “land relationship plan.”

Funded by How We Walk with the Land & Water (HWW), RIVER collective (based in New Zealand), Northern Council for Global Cooperation (NCGC), and features the following knowledge holders: Mark Wedge, Margaret McKay, Joyce Smarch, Keith Wolfe-Smarch, Rose Irvine, Belit Peters, Sean Smith, Tess McLeod.