Name: Relating to Place by Mapping with our Bodies: Indigenous Wayfinding and Decolonial Remapping
Start: 2025-05-09T11:00:00-0600
End: 2025-05-09T12:15:00-0600

Welcome to the 2025 Outdoor Learning Conference

Friday May 9, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm MDT

Great Blue Heron

Wayfinding means knowing where we are, where we want to go, and identifying the best route to get there. The workshop presenters will share their experiences delivering land-based programming on an urban campus to show how wayfinding has helped students develop their sense of place and belonging in the city. This mapping workshop offers an alternative way of understanding our relationship to place and provides a means of restorying urban and other places as Indigenous land. Participants will be invited to see the land through an Indigenous lens and learn about inherently place-based Indigenous knowledge systems. Participants will map place with their bodies, explore Indigenous and decolonial approaches to mapping, and learn to notice and relate to often overlooked natural and built landforms and landmarks. This 75-minute mapping activity and interactive discussion will involve critical reflections about place, wayfinding, and Indigenous kinscapes – the constellations of relationships between people, land, and place."

Speakers

Nicki Ferland

University of Manitoba

Nicki Ferland (she/they) is a two-spirit Métis mother, wife, aunty and helper. Her parents are both descended from scrip-bearing Métis families with ancestral roots in St. Vital and St-Boniface (Winnipeg), and Lorette, Manitoba. Nicki has a Master of Education in Indigenous Land-Based... Read More →

Meghan Young

University of Manitoba

Meghan Young (she/her) is a Red River Métis woman from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is Métis through her maternal side with ancestral connections to St. Norbert, St. Vital and St. Boniface, Manitoba. Meghan has an undergraduate degree in Indigenous studies and is currently a graduate... Read More →

Ashley Wolfe

Land-Based Educator, Community Coordinator, Cultural Coordinator, University of Manitoba - Environmental Conservation Lab/Indigenous Student Center

My name is Ashley Wolfe, and my traditional name is White Thunderbird Woman. My maternal line comes from Peguis First Nation (modern day Selkirk and St. Peter’s, Manitoba) and I currently reside near Beausejour, in the RM of Brokenhead, and I am Wolf Clan.I am a Land-Based Educator... Read More →

Friday May 9, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm MDT
Great Blue Heron

Indigenous Ways of Knowing Workshop

Outdoor Learning Conference 2025

Nicki Ferland

Meghan Young

Ashley Wolfe

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