I am currently settled and deeply grateful to live on the Eastern Coast of Turtle Island travelling to work in cities around the Great Lakes between what is now divided as the U.S and Canada. I am primarily based out of settler-colonial New England in Portland, ME which has gone by many names before including Machigonne or “bad town”. I also have ties to the film industry in T’Karonto or what settlers now call Toronto, from the Anishnaaabe word meaning “where the trees stand in water”, the unceded territory of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabe and the Mississauga’s of the credit first nation.

Maria Girouard is Penobscot, one of only five remaining of what were over 100+ distinct Wabanaki cultures in the area I now call home. This talk, and her work with Wabanaki Reach is a good place to start for anyone curious about the genocide here after settler contact. If you are elsewhere, you can search the indigenous lands you are on via this great resource: native-lands.org.