Connecting to Land Through an Indigenous Lens

This place-based talk explores how Indigenous stories, history, and lived relationships with land shape conservation in real and practical ways. Drawing from her field-based storytelling and visual storytelling (photo & video) work with Iron Shield Creative, Lailani shares how Indigenous knowledge systems are not symbolic or stuck in the past, but living ways of understanding stewardship, responsibility, and care for the natural world. Through story and time on the land, Lailani invites participants to reflect on their own connection to place and what it truly means to care for the “wider community” (natural world) and future generations.