Seed Room Consulting
We acknowledge that the land on which we gather and on which we are located is the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People and we are governed by the Peace and Friendship Treaty.
We believe in honouring the treaties but also recognizing that many treaties were signed under duress and false pretenses set by the Crown.
We recognize that European colonization of Turtle Island established the white supremacist systems and structures we work to dismantle today.
We come with respect for this land and for the people who have and do reside here. As racialized people our relationship to the land is different than that of white settlers, and we work actively to navigate that in ways that do not further harm Indigenous peoples.
We are grateful for the opportunity to build community, learn, and work on this land, and commit to ongoing learning and action toward decolonization and reconciliation.
We also recognize that struggles for justice—locally and globally—are interconnected, and we are committed to solidarity and anti-oppression for everyone.
We invite you to take the time needed to notice the effects of colonial violence on Indigenous bodies: Indigenous peoples’ tirelessly experiencing racism in healthcare, in education, in their places of employment, in courtrooms, in prisons, and while doing basic errands like shopping for groceries and banking.
And then we invite you to disrupt this violence, to hold the tension of these realizations, to accept the brutal truth, and to commit to honesty in working toward healing, reconnection, reconciliation, relationship.
As part of our commitment to reframe our responsibilities to land and community we use the following questions as a guide and we encourage other non-Indigenous people to do the same:
What relationship with land should we (as racialized and non-racialized) settlers of Indigenous lands choose to foster?
What relationship with the land do we currently have? Is it one of care and stewardship or exploitation and extraction? Which relationship do we wish to foster?
Does our being here support the healing or harm of this place and all forms of life?
For settlers like us, brought to or born in lands we settle upon, what relationship do we and should we have with the land of our roots? Especially given our roots are places which have also experienced the violence of colonization.
How did we arrive at Turtle Island, and to Epek’twik specifically? Where are we going?