We wish to acknowledge this land on which Humber College operates. Humber College is located within the traditional and treaty lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit. Known as Adoobiigok [A-doe-bee-goke], the “Place of the Alders” in Michi Saagiig [Mi-Chee Saw-Geeg] language, the region is uniquely situated along Humber River Watershed, which historically provided an integral connection for Anishinaabe [Ah-nish-nah-bay], Haudenosaunee [Hoeden-no-shownee], and Wendat [Wine-Dot] peoples between the Ontario Lakeshore and the Lake Simcoe/Georgian Bay regions. Now home to people of numerous nations, Adoobiigok continues to provide a vital source of interconnection for all.

This meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land. As learners, educators and researchers situated on expropriated Indigenous land, we wish to acknowledge that our professions and areas of research have and continue to play active roles in the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the entrenchment of the settler colonial state.

We are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land and understand that as uninvited people, we also share an obligation towards upholding The Dish with One Spoon wampum agreement and Treaty 13 in our own lives.