Land Acknowledgement

Dr. Anna Peppard would like to acknowledge that she lives and works on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee. This territory is included in the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Confederacy of the Ojibwe and Allied Nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. As a settler scholar, Anna acknowledges she is a guest on this land and strives to honor that privilege by supporting truth and reconciliation.

Dr. Andrew Deman acknowledges that he lives and works on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. SJU campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River, 95% of which was reclaimed by settlers through unjust practices that are reflective of a broader culture of literal and symbolic violence against Indigenous peoples in Canada, a culture that demands the pursuit of truth and reconciliation.