Land Acknowledgement

The Blossom Mental Health Fund operates out of the treaty territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat nations. This territory is covered by the Dish With One Spoon covenant, a treaty of collective responsibility for the protection and sharing of land and resources.

We acknowledge that our presence on this land is the result of a long history of colonialism, dispossession, and forced relocation of Indigenous peoples. Though we are an Asian-led organization, we all benefit from a history of broken treaties by the Canadian government, and we reckon openly with our responsibility as settler-immigrants to this land and its original stewards, naming the ways we are complicit in structures of white supremacy, while striving to be better allies with the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island.

We honour the longstanding work of organizers, creatives, and communities that continue to give us hope, language, and possibility. We stand with Indigenous peoples all over Turtle Island who are exercising their sovereignty and working toward justice and freedoms, whose histories, presence and imagined futures inspire us over and over to envision what our future worlds must look like.