Acknowledgements

Territorial Acknowledgement

Colleges and Institutes of Canada (CICan) acknowledges that our offices, located in Ottawa, are on the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation whose presence here reaches back to time immemorial.

Further, CICan respects and affirms the inherent and Treaty Rights of all Indigenous Peoples across this land. CICan has and will continue to honour the commitments to self-determination and sovereignty we have made to Indigenous Nations and Peoples.

CICan acknowledges the historical and on-going oppression of lands, cultures and the original Peoples in what we now know as Canada and fervently believes that education contributes to the healing and decolonizing journey we all share together.

A note about the Copyright:

While CICan holds the copyright to these modules, this is purely for protection of the content within these modules so that the content, in particular the Indigenous knowledge, cannot be used by non-Indigenous people and used for profit. This copyright is in no way a statement that CICan created all of the content but merely as the coordinators of the collaboration, we are holding the copyright. At no time will CICan seek to make profit from these modules and the Indigenous wisdom contained within these modules. These modules were co-developed with member institutes and CICan wishes to honour the creators of these modules and protect the information, particularly Indigenous knowledge found within the modules. CICan holds the copyright with the intent to always make the information fully accessible to all people everywhere. We would like to express gratitude to all of those people that contributed to this content, and acknowledge our gratitude for the Indigenous wisdom that is woven into these modules.