Land Acknowledgment

Reel Asian’s offices and main activities are located on the treaty territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat Peoples. This territory is subject to the Dish With One Spoon Wampum covenant, a treaty of collective responsibility and obligation to protect and share land and resources. 

For our 30th-anniversary edition, we will once again present digital offerings available for viewing Canada-wide. As such, we encourage audiences to learn the specific histories and stories of the lands on which they are settled — the lands of Treaty 11, many treaty agreements, and traditional, unceded territories — and to support the ongoing work of Indigenous leaders and communities.

Regardless of our pathways of arrival, we all currently benefit from the Canadian government’s broken treaties, and reckon openly with our responsibility to this land and its caretakers. As more recent arrivals to this land, we are acutely aware of our privilege.

We honour the long-standing work of organizers, creatives, and communities that continue to give us hope, language, and possibility. We practise critical and reflexive allyship with Indigenous Peoples all over Turtle Island who are exercising their sovereignty and working toward justice and freedom, whose histories, presence, and imagined futures inspire us over and over to envision what our future worlds must look like. May we be thoughtful with our intent, and intentional with our words and actions.