Land acknowledgment

I want to recognize that I am doing this work from an unceded territory which belongs to the N'dakina and Wabanaki communities.

And that I was born, grew up and lived until recently on a territory that belongs to the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka and Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (source Native-land.ca). And so I am a guest on this territory without having been invited and that my current land “belong to me” on paper because it was taken away from them when the French and English settlers arrived.

And because I have a background in social work, I also want to point out that there is an overrepresentation of families from Natives communities who are under the Youth Protection Servcies because of barriers and significant systemic racism and that there are too few families from the same nations to welcome them, so they are still too often uprooted when they have to be placed in the care of another family.

My work on this subject is ongoing and far from complete.