Queen’s University currently occupies traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory. We acknowledge this traditional territory to recognize its longer history as one that predates the establishment of the earliest European colonies and recognize its significance for the Indigenous Peoples who lived and continue to live upon it and whose practices and spiritualties are tied to the land and continue to develop in relationship to the territory and its other inhabitants today. Indigenous communities in Kingston / Katarokwi continue to reflect the area’s Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee roots, and there is significant Métis community and First Peoples from other Nations across Turtle Island present here today.

This land acknowledgement has been included on our website not to absolve Queen’s University of any of its prior and current wrongs, but to recognize that colonialism does not exist in the past or in a historical context. It is an ongoing process, and as members of the Queen’s community, we have a responsibility to understand the longstanding history that has brought us to reside on this land and to build our mindfulness of our place within that history.

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