The Elderwoods Poet project acknowledges that it is within the traditional territory and lands, now occupied by settlers, of the Haudenosaunee, the Métis, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. 

 

I understand and note that land acknowledgment is tokenism on its own.   Reconciliation requires more than words.  If reconciliation is to be just, it requires restorative action, including recognition of the unsurrendered sovereignty of Indigenous peoples.

This territory is the subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Anishinabek Nation, and their allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

 

As a settler-occupied territory, it is covered by the Upper Canada Treaties.

For more information on the treaties relating to Toronto, please click here, here, and here.

To learn more about the treaties in Ontario, treaty relationships, and treaty rights and responsibilities please click here.
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Tkaronto (Toronto) is a Kanienke’haka (Mohawk) name. In English, it translates as "gathering place/place in the water where the trees are standing."