November 14: Cultural Landscape Training Path

Topic: Cultural Landscape Training Path: Increase Respect for the Land

The Cultural Landscape Training Path is a free and public tool created for professionals in land management, more importantly, those who wish to encourage larger involvement of Indigenous partners in projects on Ancestral lands. This tool consists of a collection of story maps, each story map is designed to guide the reader to resources that can inform new projects with opportunities built in for Indigenous partnerships. The Cultural Landscape Training Path links the user to a variety of Indigenous authored resources, highlights projects spearheaded by and for Indigenous communities, Indigenous media outlets, and introduces six driving principles to building projects and partnerships that can include, without the performative allyship, Indigenous partners at all steps. Perhaps most importantly, the Cultural Landscape Training Path introduces the user to the concept of unlearning, which is understood in this training as the "practice of…