‘They went to get the Bear’

State- driven recognition and reconciliation frameworks have been a subject of critique among Indigenous studies scholars and activists alike who argue they continue to fail to address Indigenous Peoples on a Nation- to- Nation basis and neglect questions of land. Recognition, although often theorized solely as a political project controlled by the nation state, is also a spiritual process of coming to know oneself and others in relation to land. Iiyiyiu hunting protocols, rites of passage ceremonies, and land based social movements articulate a distinct politics of recognition. This Iiyiyiu politics of recognition engages the land as an agentive force that bestows and mediates self, inter- personal, and communal recognition and offers new opportunities for ecologically grounded reconciliatory practices.