I live and work in Tkaronto (Toronto, Canada), Dish With One Spoon treaty territory, traditional territory of Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples, and the territory of the Mississaugas of New Credit First Nation.
Much of my work has also taken place in xʷməθkʷəy̓əm | K’emk’emeláy̓ (Vancouver) on unceded Coast Salish land, traditional territory of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Much of my work has centred on an historical figure who arrived more than 285 years ago to Stadaconé (present-day Québec City), traditional territory of the Wendat of Roreke, as well as the Abenaki, Atikamekw and Wabanaki peoples.
My own ancestors are white Europeans who came from the Jewish Pale of Settlement, in what is now Belarus and Poland; and from France, Scotland, Germany and England. Before Tkaronto, they settled variously in:
Menaquesk (Saint John), unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik/Maliseet people
Tiohtià:ke | Mooniyang (Montreal), traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and of the Anishnaabe people
Kchi Nikitawtegwak (Sherbrooke, Quebec), traditional territory of the Ndakina Wabanaki people
Anemki Wequedong (Thunder Bay), traditional territory of the Animkii Wajiw Anishnaabe people, Fort William First Nation
Métis Homeland (Saskatchewan)
Baltimore, Maryland, traditional territory of the Piscataway and Susquehannock people
Roanoke, Virginia, traditional territory of Yesan (Tutelo) people
Through this naming and recognition, I express my gratitude to each of these first peoples, to the keepers of their languages and cultures, to those who teach me.
In each of these places named above, my ancestors’ whiteness and settlerhood enabled their descendants’ upward mobility. Whether working poor folks, farmers, traveling entrepreneurs or colonists, their presence and labour disenfranchised Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island and along one line, enslaved African people. My lifelong labour is to uncover, unsettle and account for their stories as one small effort at confronting the murderous settler colonial white supremacist system they helped build, however actively or passively, a system in which we still live today. I express love and gratitude to all my collaborators, past and future, in this work.
Acknowledgement
I live and work in Tkaronto (Toronto, Canada), Dish With One Spoon treaty territory, traditional territory of Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples, and the territory of the Mississaugas of New Credit First Nation.
Much of my work has also taken place in xʷməθkʷəy̓əm | K’emk’emeláy̓ (Vancouver) on unceded Coast Salish land, traditional territory of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Much of my work has centred on an historical figure who arrived more than 285 years ago to Stadaconé (present-day Québec City), traditional territory of the Wendat of Roreke, as well as the Abenaki, Atikamekw and Wabanaki peoples.
My own ancestors are white Europeans who came from the Jewish Pale of Settlement, in what is now Belarus and Poland; and from France, Scotland, Germany and England. Before Tkaronto, they settled variously in:
Through this naming and recognition, I express my gratitude to each of these first peoples, to the keepers of their languages and cultures, to those who teach me.
In each of these places named above, my ancestors’ whiteness and settlerhood enabled their descendants’ upward mobility. Whether working poor folks, farmers, traveling entrepreneurs or colonists, their presence and labour disenfranchised Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island and along one line, enslaved African people. My lifelong labour is to uncover, unsettle and account for their stories as one small effort at confronting the murderous settler colonial white supremacist system they helped build, however actively or passively, a system in which we still live today. I express love and gratitude to all my collaborators, past and future, in this work.