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Our staff, operations, work, and network depend on traditional indigenous territories to provide us physical space, sustenance, safety, and community to work, live, and play. Our physical office is located in Ottawa, on the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation whose presence here reaches back to time immemorial.
We recognize the Algonquins as the customary keepers and defenders of the Ottawa River Watershed and its tributaries. We acknowledge that our ability to live and work on these lands today is a direct benefit of policies of expulsion and assimilation of Indigenous peoples during the time of settlement and Confederation, and since. The harms of these policies are many and are still being felt in Indigenous communities today.
We express gratitude towards the Indigenous peoples who have and will continue to steward these lands. We commit to amplifying the voices of Indigenous peoples and working against the everyday forces of white supremacy and colonialism present in the nonprofit sector.