Little Forests McGill acknowledges that McGill University is situated on the traditional and unceded territories of the Kanien'kehá:ka, the keepers of the Eastern Door of the Haudenosaunee confederacy, and that Tio’tia:ke, or Montreal, has long served as an important meeting place between many Indigenous peoples. We recognise and respect the importance of Indigenous Land stewardship, and the role which the Haudenosaunee peoples play in protecting the land and waters upon which we are situated. We remember and condemn the harm that has been inflicted on this relationship by the actions of European colonists since their arrival in Turtle Island. We recognise the ongoing impacts of colonialism in the present day, and we commit ourselves to combat it in all of its forms. We, as members of LFM, understand the unique position which we hold in planting little forests, and we will commit to collaborating with the Indigenous communities of Tio'tia:ke, and to stewarding the Land upon which we work with humility and respect, returning it to the native plants, trees, and other beings which once flourished and which still belong here today.