Land Acknowledgment
I live and work on land stewarded since time immemorial by Indigenous communities including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Annishinabeg, the Haudenausaunee, the Wendat, and the Chippewa nations, and which is home to many other Indigenous community members today.
The Tkaranto area, a Mohawk word meaning “the place in the water where the trees are standing,” is covered by the Dish with One Spoon Covenant and Treaty 13.
As an occupying settler on stolen land, I work to conduct my therapeutic practice with the knowledge that colonialism is an ongoing and violent practice that I benefit from, and which my care profession has historically sought to uphold, by committing to anti-carceral and anti-oppressive practices, learning to act as an accomplice in dismantling colonial systems of harm, and acting in reciprocity to the land and to each other.
yasmine emily el-hamamsy
CRPO Member number: 20147
yasmineelh@proton.me
Toronto, Ontario
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