During their stay in Toronto they met with fellow PhD candidates and key academics in the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University, as well as in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. These meetings established new international connections and included discussions of future collaborations, including plans to meet in Sheffield in early 2019.
For Lindsay and Michael it is important to recognize the land on which this trip took place and that the continued dispossession of First Nation peoples are part of what made their travels possible. In alignment with this is the land acknowledgement of both universities they visited.
Ryersons Land Acknowledgement:
Toronto is in the ‘Dish With One Spoon Territory’. The Dish With One Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect.
University of Toronto Statement of Acknowledgement of Traditional Land:
We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.
