ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
The Halluci Nation, formerly Tribe Called Red, are from different tribal origins including the Anishnabe from Nipissing First Nation, the Mohawk of the Six Nations of the Grand River, and Cayuga Six Nations. The group articulates a message of Pan-Indigenous solidarity.
IDENTITY RESEARCH
Let’s reflect on our personal and collective understanding of reciprocity—not just what we receive from the world, but what we return. Who decides how benefits, burdens, and responsibilities are shared when it comes to the systems that sustain life—food production, energy grids, land use, and the way buildings and infrastructures are designed? For example, notice where resources flow one way (toward profit, comfort, or convenience) and where they cycle back (toward land, community, future generations). In this reflection, dig deeper than your first thought or inclination—engage a wide spectrum of perspectives and ideologies, and give yourself time to explore, banter, and debate.
REFLECT
In the interview with Maximin K. Djondo, the Director of Benin Environment and Education Society (BEES), Djondo is asked about the city of Ganvie, specifically the fact that Ganvie means we survived. The question was—how does the concept of survival fit for the Tufino people in today's modern Ganvie? Djondo says, "In the past they survived by escaping from the mainland where slavery was a threat. Today, survival is threatened by population growth, unsustainable management, and climate change, and they now face improper sanitation, and water-related illnesses, flooding, and salt water intrusion that has forced some fish species to extinction."
DISCUSS
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What assumptions about time, progress, and value shape how we live — and how might other worldviews reorder those priorities?
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How do our inherited languages — of growth, success, and scarcity — shape the way we see the living world?
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What does it mean to live in a system where nothing is lost, only transformed?
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If knowledge is relational rather than objective, how does that transform our understanding of truth and authority?
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If extraction is a symptom of separation, what forms of thought or language maintain that separation — and how might they be re-patterned?
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What forms of justice or care allow regeneration without dominance — where restoration becomes a shared act rather than an imposed one?
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What becomes of identity when the self is understood as part of, rather than apart from, the living world?
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What responsibilities emerge when we recognize that we are not outside the system, but expressions of it?
In an exhibition titled Unceded Territories, artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun presents Killer Whale Has A Vision and Comes to Talk to Me about Proximological Encroachments of Civilizations in the Oceans. Unceded Territories explores the intersection of environmentalism and Indigenous rights. It is just one example of the many ways Indigenous artists across the Americas are engaging technology and other works to draw attention to their culture and the environmental challenges confronting their communities, which are on the front line of climate change.