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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
For each of our regions:
“Although we have ministered in many places, right now these are the four places where our sisters are presently ministering and living”
North Bay
We, the Sisters of St. Joseph of SSM, are privileged to live and work on the sacred
traditional lands of the Anishinaabek people of Nipissing First Nation. They are
one of the twenty-one First Nations of northern Ontario that comprise the nations
of the Robinson Huron Treaty signed in 1850.
With gratitude, we acknowledge that the Indigenous peoples have cared for the
land, water, air and creatures for all that time as stewards because they saw
themselves as part of the surrounding natural world, responsible for the life of
the ecosystems and watersheds in which they lived.
We are all treaty people. May we journey on this land gently so that no plant is
broken and no creature is harmed. Let us journey together today in a good way.
Sudbury
We, the Sisters of St. Joseph of SSM who live in Sudbury, are privileged to live
and work on the sacred traditional lands of the Anishinaabek people of the
Atikameksheng First Nation.
They are one of the twenty-one First Nations of northern Ontario that comprise
the nations of the Robinson Huron Treaty signed with Settlers in 1850.
With gratitude, we acknowledge that the Indigenous peoples have cared for the
land, water, air and creatures for all that time because they saw themselves as
part of the surrounding natural world, responsible for the life of the ecosystems
and watersheds in which they lived.
We are all treaty people. May we journey on this land gently so that no plant is
broken and no creature is harmed. Let us journey together today in a good way.
Sault Ste. Marie
We, the Sisters of St. Joseph of SSM who live in Sault Ste. Marie, are privileged to
live and work on the sacred traditional lands of the Anishinaabek people including
the people of Ketegaunseebee (Garden River) and Batchewana First Nations. They
are two of the twenty-one First Nations of northern Ontario that comprise the
nations of the Robinson Huron Treaty signed with Settlers in 1850.
With gratitude, we acknowledge that the Indigenous peoples have cared for the
land, water, air and creatures for all that time because they saw themselves as
part of the surrounding natural world, responsible for the life of the ecosystems
and watersheds in which they lived.
We are all treaty people. May we journey on this land gently so that no plant is
broken and no creature is harmed. Let us journey together today in a good way.
Blind River
We, the Sisters of St. Joseph of SSM who live in Blind River, are privileged to live
and work on the sacred traditional lands of the Anishinaabek people of the
Mississauga First Nation.
They are one of the twenty-one First Nations of northern Ontario that comprise
the nations of the Robinson Huron Treaty signed with Settlers in 1850.
With gratitude, we acknowledge that the Indigenous peoples have cared for the
land, water, air and creatures for all that time because they saw themselves as
part of the surrounding natural world, responsible for the life of the ecosystems
and watersheds in which they lived.
We are all treaty people. May we journey on this land gently so that no plant is
broken and no creature is harmed. Let us journey together today in a good way.