LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Our work is hosted across the traditional, treaty, and unceded territories of the Indigenous Peoples of what is now called Canada. This Land has been stewarded, sung to, and grieved with since long before the institutions and organisations now ending were ever conceived.
We come to the work on ground that already knows endings intimately: of relations severed, of languages displaced, of obligations broken. To sit with the ending of a project, a program, an organisation, is a small part of a much longer and more expansive story. Yet, the practice of ending well, of returning what was borrowed, of composting what is finished so that something else might root, is one Land itself has been teaching all along.
We acknowledge that this work is only meaningful if it participates in:
The longer return of Land, of sovereignty, of resources to Indigenous Peoples and to all those whose relationships with place have been severed by the same logics of extraction
The repair of obligations to the waters, soils, and more-than-human kin who are also rightful participants in any decision about what endures and what ends.