Episode 35: Kanata
The land we stand on makes us. It defines our seasonal rhythms, our daily habits and our yearly traditions. How we have community, when we see family, the foods we eat . . . everything about us is tied to land. But what happens when we leave? What happens when it’s forcibly taken from us?
Hostion and Andrea share how voluntary migration and forced migration alters how you see yourself and the new land you live. Knowing the history of Canada, of colonized land, what is the posture voluntary immigrants need to have? As people born on Turtle Island, can we be curious about what 'Land Back' really means? From the original peoples of Turtle Island, to the Japanese internment camps in Ontario and to present day Palestine, listen to how land is and always will be an integral part to who we are and how we live.
Episode Sources
Geography and Identity - Research Gate
Space, Place and Identity - PennState University
Japanese Canadian Internment and the Struggle for Redress - Canadian Museum of Human Rights
On Land Day in Palestine: Our Home is Our Land - Politics Today
Indigenous Perspectives of Immigration Policy in a Settler Country - Journal of International Migration and Integration
From Mainstream to Manaaki: Indigenising Our Approach to Immigration - Fair Borders? Migration Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Quiz Sources
Origin of the Name '“Canada” - Government of Canada
Largest Countries in the World - WorldoMeters