The Métis in Space Land Trust land in Lac Ste. So we have most of a small lake, we have sort of a swampy muskeggy area, we have some rolling hills, and we have some forests. It’s sort of semi-muskeggy, semi-forested – just not the best for agriculture, but it’s perfect for what we’re interested in. Anne County an exercise in futility to make it really productive agricultural land. So our two- to three-year timeline shrunk to about three months, and we found a piece of land that is absolutely incredible. Like, we’ll send you our credit card information, we’ll give you our social insurance numbers, right?” We were like, “it’s a scam.” But as it turns out, he was completely serious. And I would like to give you money to buy a piece of land.”Īnd we said, “Okay, buddy, tell us another one. And lo and behold, a couple of weeks later, a guy from the States, who we call our “sugar settler,” got in touch and said, “Hey, I have tons of money. So we talked about it and said, “Let’s just put it out into the world and see what happens.” We started a fundraiser, thinking that it would take probably two to three years to approach the amount of money that we would need to buy a piece of land. But it’s something that always sort of stuck in our minds, that it’d be great to have land that we could bring people out to, especially folks who live in the inner city of Edmonton, who maybe don’t have access to non-urban spaces to do traditional activities, learn skills, to form those kinds of relationships that are often harder to do in urban spaces – especially in the inner city which is so heavily policed, both by actual cops as well as by settlers. And things didn’t really work out that way. Our initial plan was to live outside of Edmonton, in Chelsea’s community of Lac Ste. When Chelsea and I started the podcast in Montreal back in 2014, one of the things that we wanted to do was to get back to our home territories in Alberta, which finally was able to happen in 2016. They may seem very different, but in our minds, they’re quite intimately connected. I can’t really watch car crash movies.īack 2 the Land: 2 Land, 2 Furious is sort of an extension of our science fiction podcast. Molly Swain: So, full disclosure, the Fast and Furious franchise is very much my co-host Chelsea’s jam. To begin, could you tell me a bit about Back 2 the Land: 2 Land, 2 Furious? But before we get to that, you must tell me: are you excited for the release of F9? We are thrilled to have you participate in this series. ![]() Transcript edited for clarity and length.Įdward Dunsworth: Thank you, Molly, for speaking with ActiveHistory.ca. Series co-editor Edward Dunsworth spoke with Molly over Zoom on 14 July 2021. Politically, Molly describes herself as an Indigenous, specifically Métis, anarcha-feminist, with the goal of “total anti-colonial liberation,” including “the destruction of white cis-hetero-patriarchal supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, ableism, and states, as well as the regeneration of both new and remembered ways of living together with the land and with one another,” humans and other-than-humans alike. She is part of the directorship of the Métis in Space Land Trust and a member of Free Lands Free Peoples, an anti-colonial penal abolition group. A PhD student in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, Molly also co-hosts otipêyimisiw-iskwêwak kihci-kîsikohk (Métis in Space), an Indigenous feminist science fiction podcast, along with Chelsea Vowel. Molly Swain is a Métis woman, or otipêmsiw-iskwêw, from Calgary, Alberta (otôskwanihk), in Treaty 7 territory, Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA) Region 3, currently living in amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton), MNA Region 4, Treaty 6 and Nehiyaw-Pwat (Iron Confederacy) territory. This is the sixth post in the series Historians Confront the Climate Emergency, hosted by ActiveHistory.ca, NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment), Historical Climatology, and Climate History Network.
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