Land Acknowledgement
Land Acknowledgement In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge that the Halifax Regional Municipality is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and traditional lands of the Mi’kmaq people. The territory we currently reside on, or are visiting, has been a home and a site of deep relationality for the Mi'kmaq people for generations. The municipality acknowledges the Peace and Friendship Treaties signed in this Territory and recognizes that we are all Treaty People. Territorial acknowledgments are a first step toward showing respect for the Indigenous peoples on whose lands we gather, but they are just that: a first step. We acknowledge that Indigenous land dispossession is how Canada came into being, and that the damage done by colonization cannot be relegated to the past. The ongoing trauma of the Residential School system must be acknowledged. 150,000 Indigenous children were removed from their homes and forced to attend residential schools. Far from existing at a distant point in the past, the last residential school was closed in 1996 and the effects of forced displacement are still being felt by Indigenous peoples. We acknowledge that European contact with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas results in the deaths of 70-90% of the Indigenous population. Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin tell us that colonization "resulted in the death of over 54 million people." The genocide destroyed Indigenous farming practices and, as a result, "natural vegetation ranging from rainforest to savannah reclaimed the abandoned agricultural land" and created "a change in the chemical composition of the atmosphere" that can be measured in Antarctic ice cores. Indigenous knowledge holders have been, and continue to be, at the centre of what we call the climate emergency, providing leadership in areas like land management, disaster risk mitigation and the identifying long-term changes to the climate. Traditional knowledge is essential for effective climate action because it is place-based and context-specific, offering biological and ecosystem knowledge that cannot be found anywhere else. The ecological cycle of the Mi’kmaq Credit The knowledge that has sustained Mi'kmaq communities and ecosystems for generations offer important guidance in our moment of unpredictable change. This is why our climate work must be guided by the principle of Etuaptmumk, or Two-Eyed Seeing, a concept shared by Mi’kmaq Elder Albert Marshall. Two-Eyed Seeing teaches us to see the power of Indigenous ways of knowing with one eye, and the value of Western knowledge with the other, bringing both together to benefit everyone. We must also aim to shape our climate work according to the Mi'kmaq principle of Netukulimk, which the L’nuey initiative describes as including both "community nutrition and economic well-being," and the "integrity, diversity, or productivity of our environment."
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| Last Updated | March 24, 2026, 21:03 (UTC) |
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Land Acknowledgement |
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Land Acknowledgement In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge that the Halifax Regional Municipality is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and traditional lands of the Mi’kmaq people. The territory we currently reside on, or are visiting, has been a home and a site of deep relationality for the Mi'kmaq people for generations. The municipality acknowledges the Peace and Friendship Treaties signed in this Territory and recognizes that we are all Treaty People. Territorial acknowledgments are a first step toward showing respect for the Indigenous peoples on whose lands we gather, but they are just that: a first step. We acknowledge that Indigenous land dispossession is how Canada came into being, and that the damage done by colonization cannot be relegated to the past. The ongoing trauma of the Residential School system must be acknowledged. 150,000 Indigenous children were removed from their homes and forced to attend residential schools. Far from existing at a distant point in the past, the last residential school was closed in 1996 and the effects of forced displacement are still being felt by Indigenous peoples. We acknowledge that European contact with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas results in the deaths of 70-90% of the Indigenous population. Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin tell us that colonization "resulted in the death of over 54 million people." The genocide destroyed Indigenous farming practices and, as a result, "natural vegetation ranging from rainforest to savannah reclaimed the abandoned agricultural land" and created "a change in the chemical composition of the atmosphere" that can be measured in Antarctic ice cores. Indigenous knowledge holders have been, and continue to be, at the centre of what we call the climate emergency, providing leadership in areas like land management, disaster risk mitigation and the identifying long-term changes to the climate. Traditional knowledge is essential for effective climate action because it is place-based and context-specific, offering biological and ecosystem knowledge that cannot be found anywhere else. The ecological cycle of the Mi’kmaq Credit The knowledge that has sustained Mi'kmaq communities and ecosystems for generations offer important guidance in our moment of unpredictable change. This is why our climate work must be guided by the principle of Etuaptmumk, or Two-Eyed Seeing, a concept shared by Mi’kmaq Elder Albert Marshall. Two-Eyed Seeing teaches us to see the power of Indigenous ways of knowing with one eye, and the value of Western knowledge with the other, bringing both together to benefit everyone. We must also aim to shape our climate work according to the Mi'kmaq principle of Netukulimk, which the L’nuey initiative describes as including both "community nutrition and economic well-being," and the "integrity, diversity, or productivity of our environment." |
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2025-10-06 |
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https://www.halifact.ca/datasets/HRM::land-acknowledgement |
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[email protected]_HRM |
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Halifax Regional Municipality |
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[email protected] |
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Halifax Regional Municipality |
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[email protected]_HRM |
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2025-10-21 |
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13dfbef3aab74798ae3e2e897045aac1 |
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https://www.halifact.ca/datasets/HRM::land-acknowledgement |
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Halifax Regional Municipality |
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