Sunday September 20th – Join us for a joyful gathering. Topic: Cultivating Settler Support for Resurgence
1110 Hillside Ave
Speaker: Kikila Perrin
Climate change is impacting us all. This reality, and the reality that indigenous people are more acutely impacted by the impacts of climate change are drawing settler environmentalists into more frequent contact and relationships with indigenous land defenders, ecosystem stewards, and communities. Unfortunately, we settlers don’t always “get it right” when we show up, and sometimes we cause harm without intending to. How can the land guide our relationships while offering us an opportunity to show up in ways that are safe(r) for the indigenous people intriguing us to support their projects?
Bio: Kikila Perrin (they/he) is a settler of mostly Germanic (Bavarian, English, French, Norse) and Celtic (French, British) lineage, and was born on the traditional unceded territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation (Ottawa) before spending most of their life in Tiohtia:ke in unceded Kanein’keha:ka territory (Montreal). They are grateful and indebted to their Lekwenen and WSANEC hosts for their invitations, their calls to action, and their requests for settlers to re-evaluate the nature of our being on stolen land, which was also the nature of their doctoral research. Kikila’s work explores Indigenous-settler relationships, the nature of their PhD research. Kikila’s work explores Indigenous-settler relationships, the nature of worldview (how we understand Indigenous-settler relationships, the nature of worldview (how we understand the universe) and the nature of the knowledge and our relationship with the land as means of reproducing worldviews.
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