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Land acknowledgement. A land acknowledgement or territorial acknowledgement is a formal statement that acknowledges the original Indigenous Peoples of the land, spoken at the beginning of public events. The custom of land acknowledgement is a traditional practice that dates back centuries in many Indigenous cultures. [1]
Northern Health is the publicly funded healthcare provider for the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia . Northern Health serves over 300,000 people in an area of 600,000 square kilometres. [1] It was established as one of five geographically based health authorities in 2001 by the Government of British Columbia.
Welcome to Country. A Welcome to Country is a ritual or formal ceremony performed as a land acknowledgement at many events held in Australia. It is an event intended to highlight the cultural significance of the surrounding area to the descendants of a particular Aboriginal clan or language group who were recognised as the original human ...
A lot of [Indigenous] power was taken out of the home and out of our ways to heal ourselves,” she says. “It’s very empowering when you know how to make simple remedies, whether it’s just ...
An elegant interplay of spiritual folk wisdom and Western science continues to inspire the herbs that support Black people’s physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Photographs by Jasmine ...
History of the Bundjalung. The Bundjalung people are a large Aboriginal nation, a federation of a number of groups of clans which occupy the land from Grafton on the Clarence river of northern New South Wales north to the town of Ipswich and the Beaudesert, in southern Queensland, and down around the other side of the Great Dividing Range and ...
The Pikangikum First Nation is governed by a council elected via a custom electoral system consisting of a chief, deputy chief and nine councillors. The current chief is Shirley Lynne Keeper, Pikangikum First Nation is a member of Treaty 5 (through the initial signing on 20 September 1875 at Berens River, Manitoba) and the Independent First ...
Robinson Superior Treaty. The Robinson Treaty for the Lake Superior region, commonly called Robinson Superior Treaty, was entered into agreement on September 7, 1850, at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, between Ojibwa Chiefs inhabiting the Northern Shore of Lake Superior from Pigeon River to Batchawana Bay, and The Crown, represented by a delegation headed by William Benjamin Robinson.