Where the Land Remembers Us

“Where the Land Remembers Us” tells the story of Kisu, a Two-Spirit Afro-Indigenous L’nu’k navigating the interconnecting experiences of displacement, un/belonging, and home. From the forced migration of Ancestors from Motherland Afrika to the ongoing dispossession of Mi’kmaw homelands, Kisu carries the weight of histories that ripple into the present. They find themselves drawn to the Shore, where the ocean’s song stirs ancestral memory and the fire’s crackle speaks piercingly of survival and resistance. As Kisu reconnects with land and community, they come to understand that home isn’t a place defined by walls or ownership, but a practice of relational care and shared responsibility. Alongside others in the community, Kisu helps create a space for storytelling, singing, and collective remembering – transforming the Shoreline into a living archive of survivance. This story reflects upon what it means to live in right relationship with the land and with one another, especially when home feels like it is always being taken or denied. This story is an exploration of home as something we carry with us, cultivated in community, and nurtured through care, justice, and presence. In the end, it is the land itself that remembers – and in that blood memory, we find our way back to ourselves and recall from our Ancestors what it feels like… to belong.