Critical Self-Location in Relation to Medicinal Harvesting and Land-Based Practices

Section I | Territorial Acknowledgment & Introduction

1. Introduction: Welcome to Your New Course
Meet your instructor Erynne M. Gilpin, Ph.D. She is a mixed Michif (Member of Manitoba Métis Federation), Filipina and Celtic educator, film-maker and community-based researcher. Here, she will welcome you to your new program and introduce you to the foundations of what it means to be related to the land that you live upon.

2. Course Outline
Erynne discusses topics to be focused on in your course, including Indigenous Education Methods, Self-Location, Principles of Indigenous Land Protocols, Land Access Permissions, Land-Based Wellness Practices, Medicinal Harvesting Protocol, Accountability and Reflection.

Section II | Self-location

3. Introduction to Self-location Protocol: Locating Self in Relationship to One Another and to the Land
Explore the protocols of critical self-location in how we locate our personal and professional practice. In addition, you have the opportunity to explore how these principles inform relationships based on trust, respect and reciprocity.

Section III | Principles of Indigenous Land Protocols

4. Indigenous Governance 101: Whose Land Do We Harvest On? Part I
Here you will explore what it may feel like to lose your land and the place that you hold sacred. Understand the significance of what it means to be an Indigenous person in relationship to the land and waters.

5. Indigenous Governance 101: Whose Land Do We Harvest On? Part II
In an effort to reclaim Indigenous ways of being and learning, many folks are committed to learning the correct names of the territories they live on. Erynne gives a local example of a return to the original name of a popular hill/park in Victoria, B.C: PKOLS.

6.  Applying Indigenous Research Methodologies to Land-Protocol in Medicinal Harvesting
What are the 4 principles of self-location as it relates to medicinal harvest practice and how do they help you live a life based on respect, reciprocity, and renewal? See how these ideas are truly about moving forward, and not going backward.

Section IV | Land as Body: Indigenous Wellness & Relational Accountabilities

7. Land-Based Wellness Practices: Heal the Land, Heal the Body
Erynne invites you to read a powerful and frank write-up and to reflect upon 3 key questions in order to help you connect with your own relationship to your own well-being, the lands you harvest on, and your relationship to local Nations.

8.  All our Relations: Kincentric Relations & Values of Relational Integrity
How do your relations teach you responsibility and integrity? Erynne teaches the values of relational integrity including: responsibility, accountability, respect, and reciprocity.

9.  Land Access Permissions: Practice and Examples
In addition to exploring reciprocity, Erynne will take you through a cultural methodology from her own culture, and often used across spheres of Indigenous Education, in order to help you understand how to live out balanced relationships with others. Explore the difference between appropriation and appreciation.

10.  Sacred Lands
How do you define sacred? How do the ideas and concepts around sacred reflect relationships in your life and your medicinal practice? Explore the idea of sacred and understand the protocols and strict permissions around the sacred sites for local Nations.

11. Application: Critically Informed Self-Location and Land-based Practices
Learn and practice how to inform ourselves regarding whose Lands we are harvesting on and or practicing on. What are our own intentions, next steps and personal practice of identity and accountability in this work?

12. Full Course Review + Preparation for Harvest Demonstration
Here you will watch your final course review and Erynne offering a moment of reflection on the Land.