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As we crawl, walk, and run further and further into the information era, our connection to the land that we are on has become more and more difficult to describe. Writing this Land Acknowledgement we are torn as to whether to write about the land on which the servers hosting this website is occupying, or about the ongoing occupation of the land that we write to you from.

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While these new modes of being may trouble or make answering the question of “who’s land are we on” more difficult, they do not, and can never, erase the land. The servers which Wix hosts their websites on are scattered across Turtle Island and most are in the so-called United States. One of their data centers is located on traditional Wichita, Jumanos, and Kikapoi nation territory. 

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The genocide that erased Indigenous people from their territory is the same genocide which centuries later, as it still rages on, allows companies like Wix, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Squarespace etc. to put their data centers on stolen land, allow us to create websites like this, and showcase our work in this way. It is crucial to not simply acknowledge this connection but to actively fight and struggle with your indigenous neighbors for their liberation. This is another reason that fighting our disconnect with the land is so important. If we become atomized and alienated away from local struggles, it is our Indigenous neighbors who will suffer first. We would like to take this time to acknowledge the traditional caretakers of the territory we are writing this from.

 

The territory we are writing this from, and the territory many of our artists are hailing from, is traditionally known as Tkaranto. Tkaranto has been care taken by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat nations. Tkaranto and all Treaty land rightfully belongs to the First Nations they were taken from. This includes, for Treaty 13 land, The Mississauga’s of the New Credit first nation, and all Inuit, and Metis nations across so-called Canada. We are calling for all the land in so-called Canada to be returned to its original caretakers, in the interests of reconciliation, ecological sustainability, and justice.