We are the Land & the Land is Us

Eagle feathers floating down
To brush away yesterday’s tears
Waves crashing in to my heart
Breaking my soul open
Women’s voices echo love back into my skin
I hear my Indian name once again
Ka-tsi-tsa-kat-ste
A strong flower, a lasting flower
That lives through tough winters
And hard rain
Instill back in me
What I have always known

by Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde

official trailer [video]
Indigenous Pedagogy Reflection. Essay by LKD [pdf]
Dancing the Land: embodied stories from Haida Gwaii. Workshop outline [pdf]
project description via Dance West Network [webpage]
workshop facilitator Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde
created in partnership with Hiit’aGan.iina Kuuyas Naay/Skidegate Youth Centre
supported by Dance West Network's Des Arts Dehors/Arts Outside program; LKD was also selected for their PIVOT project
in collaboration w/ videographer, photographer Cameron Watts

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