Concordia’s Territorial Acknowledgment: Companion Resource Guide

A guide produced by Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) recommended territorial acknowledgement for institutions organized and with examples by province.

Provided by Native Governance Center, this guide offers tips for creating an Indigenous Land Acknowledgement Statement.

This resources provides suggested questions for reflection in order to create a meaningful Acknowledgement. Produced by the University of Alberta's Library and Information Sciences Students' Association.

Produced by Native Land.ca, this blog post provides additional resources for doing land acknowledgements.

A visual representation of territories, languages and treaties focusing on the Indigenous peoples of North America

Whose Land is a web-based app which provides an visual aid in identifying Indigenous Nations, territories, and Indigenous communities across Canada.

A visual map produced by Ontario government of the more than 40 treaties and other land agreements covered within Ontario. Treaties are legal agreements that set out the rights and responsibilities of First Nations and the provincial and federal governments.

An Canadian Encyclopedia article discussing the linguistic diversity of indigenous nations in Canada. Also provides a helpful visual map of language areas.

Developed by McGill University Indigenous Initiatives, this guide provides a breakdown of the different communities territories in which Montreal is currently located.

A informational resource on the Haudenosaunee Confederacy developed by Concordia University

The document linked in this post features a compiled working list of Indigenous Names to better reflect how Indigenous people currently prefer to refer to themselves.

Youtube lesson from Onkwawenna

Fall courses can be offered in James Bay Cree, Inuktitut, Kanien'kéha.

Dedicated to preserving the language and culture of the Kanien’kehá:ka community Kahnawà:ke

37 web lessons from Mohawk Language Custodian Association

Kanien'kéha landing page for FirsVoices, an online language learning space where language teams work with elders to curate and upload audio recordings, dictionaries, songs and stories.

A listing of community language and immersion programs and resources, as well as university courses.

A PDF document from Six Nations Polytechnic/Deyohahá:ge: Indigenous Knowledge Centre.

Resources to learn or contribute to the revitilization and widespread use of the Mohawk language (Kanien’keha)

The Insight Development Grant proposal, entitled isihcikewin e apatak ka natahîwe: atoskatamik tanisi kesi pîtos kiskinohamake, is the first of its kind to be submitted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The team was led by nôcikwesiw (Elder) Dr. Leona Makokis, a ceremony and language holder from the Kehewin Cree Nation.

An online space for Indigenous communities to share and promote language, oral culture and linguistic history. Language teams work with elders to curate and upload audio recordings, dictionaries, songs and stories. Explore languages to see the extensive list of languages covered.

From the New Journeys site, links to varied resources including courses,, for learning Kanien'kéha (Mohawk), nêhiyaw (Cree), Ojibwe, Mi’kmaq and more.

Innu-aimun.ca is an open-source, trilingual website where viewers can access a wide range of resources in and about Innu.

PDF only in French

A list of tools, courses, exercises and other resources for teaching and learning Indigenous languages

What does land acknowledgment do? Where does it come from? Where is it pointing? Existing literature, especially critiques by Indigenous scholars, unequivocally assert that settler land acknowledgments are problematic in their favoring of rhetoric over action. However, formal written statements may challenge institutions to recognize their complicity in settler colonialism and their institutional responsibilities to tribal sovereignty. Building on these critiques, particularly the writings of Métis cultural producer Chelsea Vowel, this article offers beyond as a framework for how institutional land acknowledgments can or cannot support Indigenous relationality, land pedagogy, and accountability to place and peoples.

Discusses the Montreal Canadiens land acknowledgement,first introduced October 16 2021, and the influence Concordia's text.

Episode from the French podcast series Oser s'en parler about treaties and Indigenous-settler relations. Territorial acknowlegements are discussed near the end of the podcast.