This abstract is in anticipation of a long research journey I will soon embark upon: a sub-Arctic circumpolar oral history project to speak with various Indigenous elders around the world. For this presentation, I want to focus on methods of finding architectural space in the stories of the Haida, the Gwich’in, and the Inuit in the sub-Arctic coastal regions of Canada. Here, time, frost, and colonial oppression have inevitably vetted out stellar models of living sustai...