The Land Loves Us: Relationship to the Land from an Alaska Native Perspective

Tia Tidwell holds up a salmon while crouching beside her young daughter. They are both smiling and laughing, facing each other. They are beside a large river with hills in the distance. Tia wears a wreath of purple flowers on her head.
Photo courtesy of Tia Tidwell.
Tidwell and her daughter at fish camp.
The Alaska EPSCoR Interface of Change project welcomes you to join a virtual presentation by Tia Tidwell on the relationship that Alaska Native people have to plants.
 
The Land Loves Us: Relationship to the Land from an Alaska Native Perspective
Presented by Tia Tidwell and hosted by Debbie Mekiana of the UAF College of Indigenous Studies, Department of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development
Nov 18, 2024
12-1 pm
 
 
Tia Tidwell is an Assistant Professor with the UAF Department of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development. She belongs to the Nunamiut people of Anaktuvuk Pass and currently resides in Fairbanks. Her research focuses on the intersection of settler colonial studies, Arctic literature, and Indigenous counter-narratives. Tia is especially interested in adapting settler colonial theoretical frameworks borrowed from New Zealand, Australia, and the continental United States to account for alternative land claim resolutions and creative resurgent responses from Indigenous communities of Alaska and Northern Canada.