Land Acknowledgement

To our viewers across Turtle Island (North America), as you watch a film with us, we encourage you to reflect on the land that you are on, who the traditional keepers of the land are, what the treaty relationship is, or if it is unceded territory.

Home to Ecologos/Water Docs, Tkaronto (Toronto) is the traditional territory of many nations including the Anishinaabek, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit peoples and it is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.  We also acknowledge that Tkaronto is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississauga and Chippewa bands.

We are grateful to live, work, and play on this land. Chi Miigwetch.

ᐁᐧ ᐊᕒᐁ ᐊᓬᓬ ᐟᕒᐁᐊᐟᕀ ᐯᐅᑊᓬᐁ
We Are All Treaty People

Canada By Treaty

This [online] exhibit explores treaties, or legal agreements with Indigenous peoples that allowed non-Indigenous people to own land and live in Canada. Canada is the traditional territory of many Indigenous nations with diverse political and cultural traditions. North America (Turtle Island) is an Old World. Civilization here dates back at least 23,000 years. In Northern North America, European colonization was achieved through treaties, not conquest. Once Europeans began to colonize this continent more than four hundred years ago, Indigenous peoples negotiated alliances with newcomers to permit sharing of lands and resources.