Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital troubles the enduring narrative binary of town and country. Borders between these two terrains have always morphed and slipped around each other theoretically, politically, economically, and socially, yet the narrative of the urban/rural divide persists. Indigenous land dispossession and reclamation, capital accumulation in the form of real-estate assets, labour, and technological development are all obscured by this persistent fiction.
Land Back
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is a member of the Killerwhale House of Daaxan of the Nisga’a Nation and an award-winning architect with 27 years of architectural experience who was the first architect of First Nations ancestry to own and operate an architectural firm in British Columbia, and an exhibiting architect with UNCEDED at the 2018 Venice Biennale. (Laurentian University McEwen School of Architecture)
For Indigenous people home is land. Home is not the walls of a physical house, but people’s physical, cultural, emotional and spiritual relationships with the land. These relationships that form one’s home, are found on the land. All land in c\a\n\a\d\a is Indigenous land, so this capitalist nation-state is built on stolen land. This theft was initiated in by Europeans through both abstract decrees like the Doctrine of Discovery and Royal proclamations, and individual settlers' physical acts of homesteading.