This paper will consider the means by which 2Ro Media’s “For this Land” presents viewers with a series of mixed performance and multimedia installations that highlight the interconnection between Indigenous territories, life-giving traditions, and Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) artistry. The series offers meditations on vital questions concerning land, memory, cultural traditions, return, and instantiation, and does so by combining poetry, video and sound. Consequently, this paper will examine the forms through which 2Ro Media (Janet Rogers and Jackson 2bears) have sought to engage with the “spatiality of storytelling” in specific sites. In doing so, it will also focus on their bid to acknowledge and animate collectively shared and ongoing Haudenosaunee systems of knowing in order to establish what the late Vine Deloria Jr. defined as ‘hereness’ within Indigenous lifeways and practices.

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