Land Acknowledgment

The East Toronto Perinatal Relational Therapy Collective is located in an area known as Tkaronto (Tuck-a-ron-toe). A Mohawk word meaning, the place in the water where the trees are standing. It has been the traditional land of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnaabe, the Huron-Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, the Chippewa, and the Métis, and it continues to be home and gathering place to many Indigenous peoples.

 The places where we build relationships with the people we support is covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant. It is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers, have been invited into this treaty in collectively caring for the land and sharing its gifts in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect.

 (adapted from the Toronto Art Therapy Institute, 2023)