Indigenous Solidarity Statement
 
Together, we have a shared responsibility to protect Mother Earth - we are all apart of the Land and the Land is apart of us.

Indigenous Nations are the ones protecting the majority of biodiversity, worldwide. Communities with ancestral relationships to their lands, winds, and waters around the globe, show us better systems of decision making, along with better ways of living together and with the land.

goodworm is located in Aspen Parkland and so-called Edmonton, whose traditional names include:  
Amiskwaciy Waskahikan (Cree)
Omukoyis (Blackfoot)
Titunga (Stoney Nakoda)
Nasagachoo (Tsuut’ina)
Sawyah-thay-koi (Dene)

Let's demonstrate solidarity with Indigenous peoples throughout the world by supporting the varied ways they assert their cultural and political autonomy.  In doing so, we must name colonialism, capitalism, and state power as forces that obstruct our aims for justice. 

Colonialism today is not disconnected from the past but is connected to present reality through the ongoing attempt to remove Indigenous peoples from their lands, including through police-forced urban street "sweeps" of our unhoused neighbours.

Land Back

Here are some local Indigenous Nations and organizations to support, financially or otherwise:

Wet'suwet'en + Gitxsan Land Defenders

Beaver Lake Cree Nation

Tawaw Outreach Collective


Please reflect on what plants (native vs invasive) you tend to and what purpose a colonial, turf-grass lawn serves in this time of climate crisis.

Let's support, and aim to walk alongside, Indigenous struggle and Indigenous sovereignty.

Learn more and take action:

Raven Trust's 'Home on Native Land' 
Land Needs Guardian 
 Section 35
UNDRIP
LAND BACK!
Treaty Land Sharing Network 
W̱SÁNEĆ Nation Land Trust

In solidarity, let's grow!