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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The lands I am privileged to live and work upon are located within the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe nations covered under the Between the Lakes Treaty, No. 3 (1792) and protected by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Agreement.  This agreement was one in which the lands were to be shared and resourced with respect to the health of both the ecosystems and the people. Because I live on the border of two cities, I also live and practice on the ancestral, treaty and title lands of the Ojibwe and the Michizaagiig Nation, now known as the Mississaugas of the Credit. I recognize and appreciate the original peoples' continued stewardship and advocacy for the protection of our more-than-human world. I am so thankful for the story keepers who have protected a worldview that recognizes the more-than-human world as kin. I am committed to the continued acknowledgement and awareness of the trauma and genocide that occured here as well as acting in every way possible, to the best of my ability and awareness, to honor these First Nations, accept responsibility for my own and my ancestors complicity in this ongoing conquest, and make every effort to learn more, understand greater, and do better at contributing to the creation of a right and reparative relationship with this place and it’s indigenous people and all those oppressed by white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy.