LAEP Speaker Series: Alonzo Coby, When Land Leads: Indigenous Planning for Community Futures

This lecture explores applied approaches to Indigenous planning through real-world examples in place-making, cultural landscape interpretation, land justice, stewardship, and planning policy. The session highlights how Indigenous planning frameworks move beyond conventional land-use models to center ancestral relationships to land, language, ceremony, and systems of community governance. Rather than treating planning as a purely technical exercise, this work positions it as a vehicle for cultural continuity, self-determination, and nation-building.

Alonzo Coby serves as Planning Director for the Shoshone Bannock Tribes, where he advances sovereignty-centered planning grounded in cultural identity, land stewardship, and long-term community well-being. His work demonstrates how tribal planning functions not merely as a regulatory framework, but as a powerful instrument for nation-building, self-determination, and the protection of ancestral relationships to land, language, and ceremony.

When

Friday, November 06, 2026 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Where

Fine Arts Visual
   Room: 150

Event Type

Lecture/Readings

Department

Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

Target Audience

Students,Alumni,Faculty,Staff,General Public,Parents,Prospective Students

Website

https://qanr.usu.edu/laep/speaker-series/

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Information/Cost

Free

Event Contact

Name: Deandra Harps
Phone: 435-797-9245
Email: deandra.harps@usu.edu

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