Walking as Embodied Territorial Acknowledgment: Thinking about Place-Based Relationships from the Side of the Road

This paper is a meditation on the possibilities of walking performance as an embodied territorial acknowledgement. It discusses problems verbal or treaty acknowledgements, and asks whether acknowledgements might overcome those problems. settlers land can begin to enter into kinship relationship with it, they are locked scopophilic extractive ways experiencing therefore incapable seeing themselves sharing ties. The paper’s theoretical discussions grounded in accounts performances author has made around Regina, Saskatchewan, city Treaty 4 territory.