Territorial Acknowledgment

Before fully launching into our unit on Indigenous comics, we thought it was important to share a land acknowledgment and to speak ever-so-briefly to the team’s relationship to Indigeneity (which you can also find on our website. 1/6

“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…” 2/6

“…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.” 3/6

“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…” 4/6

“…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.” 5/6

Neither Anna nor Andrew are Indigenous themselves and all observations contained in our unit on Indigenous representation in comics should be read within that understanding. Our aim is to amplify Indigenous histories and perspectives rather than impose our own. 6/6