Land Acknowledgement

Our life, work, and practice are situated on the ancestral, unceded, and unsurrendered territories of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation whose relationship with the land is ancient, primary, and enduring.

We acknowledge that these lands were once alive with the Algonquin Anishinaabe language, ceremony, storytelling, teachings, and song, and that for hundreds of years we as a society have been oblivious of the harm and trauma that our people have brought to both the Indigenous people and to the land in attempting to assimilate them by creating residential schools, outlawing their practices, stealing their land and carelessly exploiting the land for our own objectives.

 

Today we recognize the damage our ways are still causing to the First Peoples of this land and to mother earth and all her beings. Settler people have destroyed the original trust and friendship that was granted to us and so we take this opportunity to show our gratitude to the Algonquin people and, to this land itself for all that it provides us.

 

We accept our responsibility to honour this land as it has been cared for in the past. To do this, then, we seek to grow in our understanding of the truth of our history and to renew friendships with the Algonquins and other First Nations, with the Metis and Inuit people who live here in our community as well.

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To honour our commitment to reconciliation, we learn to hold the discomfort of the harm and work to educate ourselves and other non-Indigenous people on the true history of our country and how it lives on today. A portion of our monthly income goes to support the work of Indigenous knowledge keepers, water protectors and land defenders through Indigenous Climate Action and to support justice for Indigenous Nations through Raven Trust.