With no real connection to a “homeland”, a sense of diaspora may exist for descendants of settlers in Canada. Which history shall we relate or engage with? This existential struggle is not solely Canadian and it very much feels to resonate with any North Americans who are descendants of European settlers.

In 2015 our continuing land claim project began. We decided to repurpose the staking methods of our settler ancestry. We wanted to see this physical action resurface, as a way to absolve ourselves from beliefs that the current real-estate system is in anyway finite. We find it is important to state that we do not intend to claim in the exact manner that our ancestors did. In contrast, to our ancestors we will not take from a population of people whom have already succeeded in cultivating and utilizing the land. Instead, we wish to identify owned yet unused buildings and urban spaces, and lay claim there.