For the past little while we have been doing a unit on geography and identity and how they interact. Our big question for this unit was: How does the land impact our identity? To find some answers to this question we went on a field study through the rockies to Calgary.

Before we left for our trip we studied some of the geography of Canada. Some of the things we looked at were: the traditional territory that we are on, the physical regions of Canada and the CPR. We looked at the names of the traditional territories in BC and Alberta. We also looked at where they were located so we would know where we were.

Another thing we looked at was the physical regions of Canada and how they impacted the people who lived there.

We also looked at the CPR throughout the entire unit and trip because it had such a big impact on Canada; it connected the entire country east to west and made BC a Canadian province.

When we got back from our trip we started to look more at identity. One of the main things we looked at was national, collective and individual identity’s. National identity is the identity of a nation an example of this is the CPR which is a big part of our nations identity. Collective identity is the identity of a group or a community. An example of this is if you are a burner (someone who attends burning man).

Individual identity is your own personal identity.

The main project that we have been working on for this unit was to make a video about identity. For this video we had to answer the the driving question using three locations as examples from our trip. 

In conclusion, identity is the sum of who we are, what we’ve done, what we are doing and what we are going to do. As for the land a better question would have been, “What doesn’t the land impact?” The land impacts everything because we live on it and living is a sum of everything we do. Since identity is a sum of what we’ve done, what we are doing and what we are going to do; the land directly impacts our identity.