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Land Acknowledgement
This website and my work are being crafted and facilitated from colonized indigenous land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst many First Nations including the Kanien’kehá:ka of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The Kanien’kehá:ka peoples are recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters which nourish and sustain those of us who live on this territory known as Tiohti:áke/Mooniyang.
The Kanienʼkehá꞉ka are know as "keepers of the Eastern door" as protectors of the Eastern side of the confederacy. Kahnawà:ke is the traditional seat of government for the Kanien’kehá:ka people located on Kaniatarowanenneh, or the "big waterway" (colonially named the St. Lawrence River) just south of the islands of Tiohti:áke (so-called Montreal, Quebec). Their language is Kanehsatá:ke and is the healthiest of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy languages with 3000 fluent speakers and a 2 year adult immersion program
If you have the means to donate, please offer support to RAVEN Trust a registered charity that raises legal defense funds to assist Indigenous Peoples who enforce their rights and title to protect their traditional territories.
As a white-bodied settler and immigrant who non-consensually occupies colonized Indigenous territory, I want to call out the complexities in sharing practices often centered on self-pleasure and mindful embodiment as liberatory praxis. The separation of mind and soma is a tool of colonization and white supremacy; it is the cultures and understandings of bodies of color that are most often the originators and keepers of these wisdoms. I share my awareness with deep gratitude and reverence for this knowledge and through the lens of my own experiences.
Learn more about the people, their culture, government, land back and reconciliation projects by beginning with their names and that of their lands.
