The Land Relationships Super Collective is a network of Indigenous-led, Black-led and Black-Native-led land and water-based projects. It is meant to provide a space for building mutual support and strategy sharing towards decolonization and the rematriation of land.
Our Beginning
The Land Relationships Super Collective was generated in 2015 by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. It brings together collaborators who are engaging in meaningful land education and decolonization practices. The LRSC is a space and place of building relations with each community organization, co-creating with one another and actively emerging various ways of meaning-making, approaches to land back and rematriation, and healing relationships with the land.
We see this as an extension of our writings on decolonization, as a way to pursue the theories that have inspired us.
Photo taken by Sueño Viveros in January 2019, during a Super Collective visit to Sogorea Te’
LRSC is a contingent collaboration of autonomous efforts to decolonize and heal relationships to land.
Our structure
In creating the Land Relationships Super Collective, we are actively avoiding the worst aspects of intermediary organizations. Instead, we want to create something light, flexible and responsive--only for as long as it is needed--to support different paths toward decolonization and the rematriation of land.
We are a collective of collectives, typically two people join and participate in the LRSC from each collaborating organization.
Photos taken by Tiffany HIll at a visit with otipêyimisiw-iskwêwak kihci-kîsikohk, Métis in Space, in 2023.
Our goals
Learn about efforts to relate differently to land, share practical advice, theorize together, and identify needs for resources and support, strategize on how best to find those resources and support.
Hold space for future planning, for the long view of decolonization, rematriation, and relationships to land.
Whenever possible, bring support and cash to participating members/organizations/collectives in the Super Collective.
Photo taken during a visit with Sogorea Te’ in 2023