Land-based activities and healing can take place when we return or reconnect to the land while utilizing supports to relearn, revitalize, and reclaim our traditional wellness practices.
The land is foundational to our Dakota identity, but over generations of colonization, we have been disconnected and dispossessed from our traditional territories.
About Land Based Teaching
Our Dakota Land-Based Program’s goal is to provide children and youth with the necessary skills, knowledge and experience in land, language and culture to help retain and regenerate land-based practices. Dakota land-based learning has implications for science, culture, politics, language, environmental stewardship, land rights, reconciliation—and the future of the planet.
Program Description
Our Land Based Worker works with the Wellness Team to offer various Land based opportunities to support the intergenerational transmission of knowledge, rekindle our connection to the land and meet the Land based Program goals.
Wesley Lake
Land Based Worker