Land acknowledgement
The Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network (CADeN) honours the traditional territories upon which our directorship, staff, members, and partners live and work. We recognize that the lands we are privileged to call home and which enable the health of our communities are by and large unceded, and that mistakes made throughout our colonial history have caused profound harm to their original stewards: the Indigenous peoples of Canada.
As part of our commitment to Truth and Reconciliation, CADeN resolves to build strong relationships with Indigenous communities from coast to coast to coast, and to partner with Indigenous communities in research and actions reflecting their priorities and their ways of knowing and being. Furthermore, we aim to engage in projects to decolonize and produce culturally safe resources that support communities in the goal of promoting health and eliminating medication-related harm.
We acknowledge that we hold offices in both Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, and in Moh’kins’tsis/Calgary, Treaty 7 and Métis Region 3 territory.
Tiohtià:ke/Montréal has a long history as a place of gathering and exchange for many First Nations, including the Kanien’kehá:ka of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Huron/Wendat, Abenaki, and Anishinaabeg.
Moh’kins’tsis/Calgary is a traditional meeting place of the Blackfoot and the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina, and the Stoney Nakoda First Nations. The City of Calgary is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.