Land Acknowledgment
"Every moment spent agonizing over land acknowledgement wording is time that could be used to actually support Indigenous people."
-Native Governance Center (nativegov.org)
The land that Creative Diversity Friends Club rests on does not belong to us. Rather, we belong to it, as do all the Semiahma, Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, Qayqayt, and Tsawwassen people that lived here before us, whom we live among today, and all the generations that are to come.
Belonging to this land entails a responsibility to respect the land that sustains and supports us, and to respect, sustain, & support the people that belong to this land, to the best of our ability. Our feet walking on this land entails a responsibility to decolonize ourselves, and to walk in friendship and harmony with those whose ancestors walked here for thousands of years.
Creative Diversity Friends Club is committed to honouring and respecting the land and the people that we are blessed to be among, and committed to growing in our understanding of how to serve and support this place and its people.