The Land We Are On

Factory163 acknowledges our privilege to hold CoCreative space on land rich in an on going history of human CoCreation since the beginning.

Two Treaties govern this territory. The first is the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant of 1701, made between the Anishinaabe and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an agreement to set violence aside and peacefully share and care for the land in the Great Lakes Basin (the Dish). The second is the Upper Canada Treaties, Huron Tract Treaty no.29 of 1827, an agreement drawn up by the Canada Company, an agency of the British Crown, between the crown and eighteen Anishinaabek Chiefs.

We wish to acknowledge and honour the ancestral guardians of this territory: the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Wendat, and the Neutrals. Many Indigenous peoples still call this land home and act as its stewards. We know and accept that the responsibility to share and nurture this land, leaving it better for generations to come, is our responsibility to share.

As settlers, our recognition of the contributions and ongoing historic importance of Indigenous peoples must be connected to a collective commitment; the commitment to educate ourselves, the commitment to make the promise and the challenge of 2015 Truth and Reconciliation real in our communities, the commitment to acknowledge and recognize the genocide perpetrated against the First Peoples and the commitment to bring justice for the murdered and missing indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA across our country.

Truth and Reconciliation Report released June 2015:

http://www.trc.ca/

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls report released June 2019:

Final Report