UBC Land Acknowledgements

Land Acknowledgements at UBC

While we may each be in different locations physically, we are all part of the community at UBC and the infrastructure (including our servers) for this virtual work to continue. It is our privilege to be able to connect our work to the lands on which Indigenous peoples have lived for thousands of years.

For more information on land acknowledgments, please refer to section two of the document below on Acknowledgment and Recognition.

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Incorporating a Land Acknowledgement

Provided here are several examples of land acknowledgements that can be used in your online course. These can be used as presented below. You may also choose to search into the details of your specific learning places.

Native Land Digital, a BC not-for-profit society governed by an Indigenous Board of Directors, has provided an interactive map (Links to an external site.) where you can search the deep significance and histories of the places on which we live and work today.

 

UBC Vancouver 

The UBC Vancouver Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The land it is situated on has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam people, who for millennia have passed on in their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next on this site.

 

UBC Okanagan

The UBC Okanagan campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan nation. The land it is situated on has always been a place of learning for the Syilx Okanagan people, who for millennia have passed on in their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next on this site. 

 

UBC West Kootenay Teacher Education Program

The UBC Vancouver Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The land it is situated on has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam people, who for millennia have passed on in their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next on this site.
We would also like to acknowledge that the WKTEP Program has typically taken place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Syilx tmixʷ (Okanagan), sngaytskstx tum-ula7xw (Sinixt), Ktunaxa ɁamakɁis, (Ktunaxa) nations.