Indigenous Land Protocol in Medicinal Harvesting
Learn the Indigenous Governance Protocols that are necessary for all healers, medical harvesters, plant-workers, and practitioners to transform relationship to Self, Others, Spirit and, Land/Waters.
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Meet your course instructor
Erynne Gilpin | PhD
Erynne Gilpin Ph.D is a mixed (Cree-Métis and Filipina/Celtic) community wellness researcher, activist, artist, educator, community birth doula, filmmaker and founder of Indigenous Womxn Climb. Recently completing her Ph.D of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria (2020) in a project entitled "Land as Body: Indigenous Womxn's Leadership, Wellness and Embodied Governance," she is set to begin Post-Doctoral Research in September of 2020 at the Centre of Indigenous Research and Community-Led Engagement. Erynne’s research to date focuses on Indigenous wellness pedagogy, Indigenous Climate action, Land-based leadership and governance, storied-film education and “embodied governance, insurgent healing, and land/water-based wellness.” Her future work centres Inter National (Canada – Guatemala – Brazil) Indigenous relations through storytelling and place-based knowledge as governance.
Course description
Indigenous relational protocols in harvesting, medicinal preparation, and Land-based healing practices have been disrupted through colonial settler-contact and attempted erasures of Indigenous cultures, governance, and ceremonies. However, the continued presence of Indigenous peoples, governance systems, cultures, and nations across so-called Canada demonstrates their survival and their resilience. Indigenous resurgence is the assertion of diverse Indigenous epistemologies (ways of being, knowing, relating), as well as practices of Land-based decolonization. This course provides students with a basic introduction to Indigenous Land Protocols, grounded in Indigenous Research Methodologies. There will be an emphasis on the formation, maintenance, and diversity of Indigenous identities. Topics include: Critical Self-Location, Principles of Indigenous Land Protocol (4), Land-Based Wellness Practices, Water-based protocols, Territorial Acknowledgment.
This course intends to foster a greater appreciation for the strength and cultural continuity of Indigenous peoples, as well as a deepened understanding of the roles and responsibilities upheld by non-Indigenous communities on Indigenous Lands. A better understanding of critical self-location is meant to encourage students to consider their place within these relationships to self, to others, to Spirit, and to the Land.
You will learn about:
- Territorial acknowledgments (intended to situate a gathering).
- Breathing life into acknowledging our responsibilities as visitors to traditional and ancestral territories.
- How our presence on First Nations territory may interrupt ancient ways of being, knowing, and governing.
- Our responsibility to prevent further intrusion in local territories, fishing grounds, village sites, and ceremonial places.
- How our presence here can either disrupt or repair the relationship between the original peoples and their land.
- How knowledge incites a responsibility to protect the wellbeing of territories and local efforts of Indigenous cultural strength.
- Our commitment to Indigenous Land-protocols in wellness practices.
- The opportunity to breathe life into efforts to reconcile past wrongs and establish new relationships, based on respect, reciprocity, and renewal.
Lesson plan
Students are saying…
“I think this course should be considered a necessity for anyone wanting to harvest their own herbal medicine. I was very happy with everything—this was a very informative course and I enjoyed how it also made you think outside the box.”
“I loved the course! My family history is Métis. My grandmother never let us learn about our history, we kept it hidden and felt shame about it. I’m happy to be proud of it.”
“The course was good, respectful, informed and connected. I am doing electives for my phyto diploma and have an interest in feeling more connected to indigenous communities. Learning how to engage with local indigenous communities and what their protocols are for doing so was most helpful.”
“She is very knowledgeable about how to be respectful when working with indigenous communities. She brings a lot of different perspectives on the subjects, and knows her material very well both intellectually and emotionally.”
“She brought a positive healing–based approach to this class and taught me so much. I really appreciated her teaching us phrases in Cree! That was very cool.”
“Erynne is by far the most incredible, interesting, and engaging professors I have ever had. Her teachings moved me and caused me to think about my day to day life and surroundings. She shows compassion and care when teaching.”
“I am currently learning how to harvest, and I have been wanting to know how to do so in the most respectful way. This course was amazing and thought provoking. So useful too!”
“I like to harvest from nature, and it was all very informative! The last part was also beautiful where you could see the ceremony of harvest.”
“The course was very interesting and provided a good introduction to the importance of land/water to Indigenous cultures. The presentation was very genuine. It was nice listening to Erynne!”
“With this essential course, I grew my awareness around self-location and Indigenous lands. It was very useful, and I’d love to take more courses with this instructor!”
“Gratitude for this course and the generous sharing of these teachings. It would have been great if this were offered in schools when I was growing up—incredibly important work.”
“This course is a great step to decolonizing our lives and perspectives. I liked the whole course; thank you so much for creating this!”
“Wonderful. I’m grateful. I enjoyed it tremendously and found the subject matter of pressing and transformational importance. The combination of explication and demonstration was great.”
“The basic teachings of self-location, kincentric relations, and land-based practices helped deepen my understanding of place and belonging. I live in unneeded territories, and I wanted to know how to be here in a better way.”
“Absolutely great. Both profoundly philosophical and perfectly practical. More of a journey than a course.”
Please note, this elective course is for PRC Campus students only.