Consensus Enterprises acknowledges our presence in Kanata, home to many First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples, and recognizes our privilege resulting from the colonial history of genocide and land occupation. Turtle Island is the ancestral home of indigenous people who have lived in caring relationship with this land for thousands of years.

We recognize these words alone are not sufficient. We endeavour to put into action our belief in reconciliation and solidarity with indigenous people in our communities and globally. Thus, we support the Land Back movement.

We are all at different stages of understanding and accepting our shared history. Here are some resources to learn more and develop relationships with indigenous communities:

• https://native-land.ca is a great way to look up whose territories you are in, and a starting point for researching the people who are indigenous to that area.
• https://www.whose.land/ is another good resource to understand where we live and work, applicable treaties etc.

Our workers live and work in a variety of locations:

• Tkaronto (Toronto)
• Midland
• Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal)
• Thadinadonnih (Guelph)

These territories were negotiated under treaties:

• Dish With One Spoon Wampum
• Five Council Fire Wampum
• Two-Row Wampum
• Treaty 13
• Williams Treaties
• Lake Simcoe Treaty 16
• Treaty 5
• Great Peace of Montreal
• Treaty 4
• Haldimand Treaty
• Treaty 3

Some of these treaties are pre-confederacy, and some did not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact indigenous title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.

Tkaronto

Tkaronto (Toronto) is the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Wendat. We also recognize the enduring presence of all First Nations, Métis and the Inuit peoples.

Midland

Midland is the traditional territory of the Anishnaabeg people, and was once the traditional territory of the Wendat. This territory is within the pre-confederation Treaty 5 and Treaty 16, and included within the Williams Treaties of 1923.

Tiohtiá:ke

Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal) is the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk), a place which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst many First Nations including the Kanien’kehá:ka of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Wendat, Abenaki, and Anishinaabeg

Thadinadonnih

Thadinadonnih (“the place where they built”) also known as Guelph, Ontario. This is the land of the Attawandaron, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples, the current treaty territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, and governed by the Dish with One Spoon Covenant.

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