Land Acknowledgement

I am a settler on Turtle Island, currently residing and working on land belonging to the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Chippewa, and the Haudenosaunee peoples. In addition to settling on stolen traditional and ancestral land, I am occupying it for the purpose of participating in healthcare and academic systems that were built on and continue to uphold colonial frameworks.

Many non-Indigenous folks and their families, myself included, have settled on this land for comfort, safety, and opportunity. It is important to me that I reflect on how being here offers more opportunities for myself, but comes at the expense of the Indigenous communities we perpetually displace and exclude. I invite you to reflect on your own positionality and what it means for you to be on this land.

To learn more about the land which you are occupying, as well as about land acknowledgements more generally, visit Native Land.ca