Land Acknowledgement

I live and work on land stolen from the First Nations Coastal Salish people who have lived here for thousands of years before white colonizers arrived 150 years ago with violence towards the Salish people and the land. Nature remembers this violence, too.

In my work to help people connect with nature, my goal is to celebrate native people, their wisdom and their sacred spiritual connection to the land by highlighting their knowledge about native plants and trees. I teach practical ways to decolonize self and land to heal self and land and how to not appropriate when working with plants.

Plant and mushroom walks and classes are free for folks indigenous to Turtle Island to support connection with their homeland. 10% of all nature walks and classes are given to the Nakani Native Program (a traditional medicine program that connects native people with the land) to honor native people and indigenous plant knowledge, to pay rent to work on the land that belongs to the Salish people and as reparations on behalf of my own white colonizer-settler ancestors.

Please visit the Hibulb Cultural Center in Tulalip to hear the stories of the Salish people.

Click here for a map of the Coastal Salish tribes.