Territory Acknowledgement
We live and work on unceded Coast Salish Territories*, specifically of the lษkฬสทษลษn and WฬฑSรNEฤ peoples. Many of our practices, including: our organizational structure, the seeds we plant, the trees we harvest, the ways we educate, and our methods of growing food, came to these lands through the ongoing process of dispossession and colonialism. We seek to hold this understanding in our interactions and engagements with this land and its people.
* The term Coast Salish is used to encompass a number of Indigenous peoples, including the lษkฬสทษลษn People, known today as the Esquimalt and Songhees, Hulโqumiโnum, Klahoose, MALAXEt, Musqueam, OStlqโemeylem, Pentlatch, Sciaโnew (Beecher Bay), Sliammon, Shishalh, Skxwรบ7mesh-ulh รxwumixw, Stรณ:lo, Straits, Tsleil-Waututh, TโSou-ke, WฬฑSรNEฤ (Pauquachin, Tsartlip, Tsawout, Tseycum), and Xwemalhkwu.