Wanda “Kashudoha” Loescher Culp

• 2024 scholarship recipient
  

As a 2024 scholarship recipient, Wanda is continuing to work with Anastasia Maier (2023-24 mentee) on their project, “Genres of Emplacement - Hoonah Project” which they describe below. For an example, see the mapping project. Dakhaá Xhoo, Among the Sleeping Man.

Tongass Women for Forest and Land Clinic are collaborating on Genres of Emplacement, a creative-legal project at the crossroads of legal design, cartography, and land-based justice. This project acknowledges the land and water use vital to Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian identity and collective memory. It catalyzes cultural repair by elevating Indigenous narratives and advancing U.S. justice through the systematic restoration of Indigenous lands. Using ARCgis technology, the project creates compelling data visualizations that narrate the rich cultural, historical, and legal stories of the land, reclaiming invisibilized Indigenous narratives. These maps not only document the lands but also advocate for land returns and acts of repair.

WANDA “KASHUDOHA” LOESCHER CULP is an Indigenous Tlingit activist, advocate, hunter, fisher and gatherer of wild foods, born and raised in Juneau, and living in Hoonah, Alaska.  Her work is guided by the voices and DNA of her Eagle-Chookeneidi Matrilineal bloodline. She is the mother of three children, and is recognized as a storyteller, cultural interpreter, playwright, and co-producer of the film Walking in Two Worlds. As of 2016, Wanda has united with WECAN as a Regional Coordinator, revitalizing initiatives to protect the Tongass Rainforest and the traditional rights and lifeways of the regions Indigenous peoples. She began organizing Tongass Women for Forest in 2023 and currently serves as a board member of Land Clinic.

Juneau, Alaska, USA