LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 

 

  

 

I recognize and acknowledge with gratitude, that I am privileged to work and create on the territories of the Pacheedaht First Nation—or “People of the Seafoam”—who are a Nuu-chah-nulth people
from the southwest coast of Vancouver Island.

I welcome opportunities to learn, unlearn, listen, and understand
and to find ways that I may make impactful acknowledgement and change.​

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The DEATH of a conference

The DEATH of a conference

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