Land Acknowledgement

I acknowledge the sacred land on which I live and work, known as Tkaronto and traditionally as Turtle Island, is the unceded and ancestral territories of the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee confederacy, the Mississauga's of the Credit River, the Wendat and many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples.

I acknowledge that Tkaronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississauga's of the Credit and the Williams Treaty signed with multiple Mississauga's and Chippewa bands, to peaceably share and care for the lands around the Great Lakes and its resources.

As a Black woman in Canada, a forcibly displanted African (ie. stolen peoples on stolen lands), I recognize that Indigenous sovereignty is linked to our collective liberation, and it is paramount that I continue to reflect on ways that I can mobilize and take action in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and communities. 

I recognize and support the call to actions from the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit Peoples, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action.