10/07/2026
🍂🌿 LAND IS THE LAB. CULTURE IS THE CURRICULUM.
This fall, we were honoured to partner with Livingstone Range School Division to deliver another for-credit Fall Land Camp rooted in Blackfoot culture, Indigenous science, and land-based learning.
Students spent the week learning through the land and alongside knowledge holders, exploring the traditional process of hide tanning and the deep relationships between land, materials, people, and knowledge.
We were especially honoured to welcome Kainai Knowledge Keeper Iitsisst’stainnskii (Sings in the Trees), Winston Wadsworth, who shared teachings and protocols throughout the week, including an ochre face-painting and pipe ceremony. 🧡
Indigenous Peoples have always been scientists.
Long before science was defined within classrooms and laboratories, Indigenous Peoples were observing, questioning, experimenting, adapting, and passing knowledge from generation to generation. Our sciences are rooted in relationships with the land, water, animals, plants, sky, and one another — knowledge carried through millennia of oral histories, stories, teachings, and lived experience.
This is what it means to learn science through a Blackfoot lens: not separating knowledge from land, culture, and community, but recognizing that they have always been interconnected.
The land has always been our classroom. The knowledge has always been here. We are honoured to learn from it, share it, and carry it forward. 🦬🌾🧡
