2024-2025

Land acknowledgement

We acknowledge that Alberta is the traditional and ancestral territory of many peoples, presently subject to Treaties 6, 7, and 8. This encompasses the Blackfoot Confederacy – Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika – the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stoney Nakoda, and the Tsuu T’ina Nation and the Métis People of Alberta, including the Metis Settlements and the five territories of the Otipemisiwak Métis Government of the Métis Nation within Alberta. We are grateful for the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit who have lived and cared for these lands and their resources for generations. We give thanks for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are here with us today and those who have gone before us and for what they have taught us about the gifts these lands offer.