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In DID you know?

Things look different from an Indigenous Perspective

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In DID you know?

Our Name for North America

Is TURTLE ISLAND?

PLACE

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Our Creation Account

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Themes

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Turtle Island and our Responsibility

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Indigenous Place Names

  • Article 13 of UNDRIP
    • “Indigenous peoples have the right to revitalize, use, develop and transmit to future generations their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures, and to designate and retain their own names for communities, places and persons.”

https://www.afn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18-01-22-Dismantling-the-Doctrine-of-Discovery-EN.pdf

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Game

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Indigenous Place Names

Origin

Nation

What we call this place

Kana:ta

Mohawk for village or settlement

CANADA

Manito-wapaw

Cree for “the strait of the spirit”

Manitoba

Nunavut

Inuktitut for “our land”

Nunavut

Onitariio

Huron for “beautiful lake”

Ontario

Kepek

Mikmaq for “strait or narrows”

Quebec

Kisiskaciwani-sipiy

Cree for “swift flowing river”

Saskatchewan

Yookkene

Athabaskan for “great river”

Yukon

Adaawe

Anishinaabe for “to buy”

Ottawa

Tkaronto

Mohawk for “trees standing in the water”

Toronto

Ohronwakon

Mohawk mistranslated to “head of the lake”

Hamilton

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Land Acknowledgement

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  • https://native-land.ca/

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  • https://www.whose.land/en/about

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Unreserved

'I regret it': Hayden King on writing Ryerson University's territorial acknowledgement

CBC Radio · Posted: Jan 18, 2019 11:46 AM ET | Last Updated: June 19

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/redrawing-the-lines-1.4973363/i-regret-it-hayden-king-on-writing-ryerson-university-s-territorial-acknowledgement-1.4973371

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The Dish with One Spoon

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The Guswenta (Two Row Wampum)

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The Haldimand Treaty of 1784

The Haldimand tract- a 950,000 acre tract of land that the British Crown granted to the Haudenosaunnee Confederacy (or the Six Nations) in 1784.

The land was granted as partial fulfillment of a pre-Revolutionary War promise made by the British Crown that, if the Six Nations fought with the British in the American Revolution, the British would help the Six Nations keep their four million acres of land in what is now upstate New York.

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In the Haldimand Proclamation, Governor-in-Chief Frederick Haldimand stated in part:

“I do hereby in His Majesty’s name authorize and permit the said Mohawk Nation and such others of the Six Nation Indians as wish to settle in that quartered to take possession of and settle upon the banks of the river commonly called Ouse or Grand River, running into Lake Erie, allotting to them for that purpose six miles deep from each side of the river, beginning at Lake Erie and extending in that proportion to the head of the said river, which them and their posterity are to enjoy forever.

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How to Respectfully Acknowledge Land

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  1. Start with a Greeting
  2. Introduce/ Situate yourself in this PLACE
  3. Significance of Institutional name in relation to PLACE
  4. Statement of Purpose
  5. Acknowledgement and Gratitude for the present moment

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Land Stewards and Protectors of Turtle Island

DO’s

  • Still here
  • Territory was not surrendered
  • Treaties are still binding
  • We are all treaty people
  • Treaties negotiated with purpose of peaceful coexistence
  • We are sovereign peoples

DON’ts

  • Position us as non-existent
  • Position territory as surrendered
  • Position treaties as historical
  • Position agreements as one-sided
  • Positon Indigenous people as Canadian or Canada’s