The statement can be used to craft your own meaningful Land Acknowledgment. Tips for crafting a meaningful acknowledgment and other learning resources are listed below. If we can improve on this statement, please contact us at LivingCK@Chatham-Kent.ca.
Thank you to the Knowledge Keepers of the 'Culture Card Committee' for creating and enabling us to share the A Road to Understanding Indigenous Culture document.
The area now known as Chatham-Kent is the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy: the Odawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe. The Lunaapeew also inhabited these lands at the time of the written treaties. We also acknowledge the Indigenous Peoples who travelled these lands before the written treaties. Chatham-Kent continues to be home to diverse First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples.
Chatham-Kent is covered by The Detroit Treaty of 1790; the Sombra Township Treaty of 1796; and the Longwoods Treaty of 1822. We also recognize that this region is subject to earlier Wampum agreements like the Two Row Wampum and the Dish with One Spoon Wampum. As beneficiaries of these Treaties, our responsibilities including collective responsibilities to the land and water.
How to offer meaningful land acknowledgments:
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