It wasn’t until I moved to Vancouver four years ago that I’d heard a land acknowledgement, and now it’s a much more common (and I hope growing) practice for events and meetings to open with an acknowledgement that we are on the unceded traditional homeland of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Now I know the appropriate acknowledgement for where I was born, in Calgary (Mohkinstis) and I found that this post was a helpful alternate way of phrasing the land acknowledgement.









