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This week we read an article which was written by Jean P. Restoule, Sheila Gruner, and Edmund Metatawabin titled “Learning from Place: A Return to Traditional Mushkegowuk Ways of Knowing” speaks of the processes decolonization and re-inhabitation, especially in the context of land. How do people live on land? How did people ever figure out to live on the land for example of Saskatchewan? Beats me, its so cold out there! But people did, but then colonizers took a lot of that knowledge away from the people and so now how did they get back to it and re-inhabitate what was their land and way of life? One way discussed in this article is to bring people together “bringing generations of community members together on the land led to the reclamation of culture and Indigenous knowledge and built greater community resistance to external forms of economic exploitation and development” (68) By standing together they become a larger body and an empowered body. After generations of b