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- A Place of Medicine: Marsh at First Peoples House
Championed by Loreisa Lepine, UVic’s Indigenous Land Steward, this restored courtyard is now a thriving medicine and food-bearing landscape that includes over 160 Indigenous plant species. Not only an ecological space, it is a deeply relational site for teaching, healing, and resurgence that reconnects people to the histories and sustainabilities embedded in lək̓ʷəŋən territory. Lepine and Eco-Cultural Steward Drew Elves host land-based classes and community gatherings that centre place-based ecological restoration grounded in
Indigenous knowledges and values. Lepine and Elves have also regenerated other notable sites on campus, including the forested lands behind the National Centre for Indigenous Laws and “Reciprocity Meadow” near the Turpin building.
How can ecological restoration help to address colonial injustices?
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