LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We at the Trauma & Embodiment Association of Ontario acknowledge that we are settlers on this land. We live, work and breathe on the traditional territory of the Anishnawbe, Haudenosaunee, and Neutral / Attawandaron peoples. Kitchener-Waterloo is located on the Haldimand Tract, which, on October 25, 1784, after the American Revolutionary War of Independence, was given to the Six Nations of the Grand River and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation by the British as compensation for their role in the war and the loss of their traditional lands in Upstate New York. Of the 950,000 acres given to the Haudenosaunee (six miles on either side of the Grand River, all the way along its length), only 46,000 acres (less than 5 percent) remain Six Nations land, and 6,100 acres remain Mississaugas of the Credit land.