City showing new land acknowledgement video

Nov 19, 2021 | 5:30 AM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – This welcome to territory piece is now available via the City’s YouTube channel as a resource for the community. The purpose of the video is to welcome people and acknowledge the traditional land the city is located on.

The video can be seen below.

“Many non-Indigenous organizations have implemented territorial or land acknowledgements; their purpose is re-teaching the colonial claim to land, but these statements cannot be the endpoint,” says Reconciliation Lethbridge Advisory Committee (RLAC) member, Marcia Black Water.

“For this area of Siksikaissksahko (Blackfoot land), fundamental to reconciliation is that land holds the preservation, growth, and sustainability of language and culture. Iikaiskini, Leroy Little Bear, will remind us that all things are animate and therefore their spirit constantly exists. When talking about land, in the case of Lethbridge, when we greet each other with Oki, we welcome the spirit that holds the true narratives of this land and the people.”

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The city says the purpose of the video is to welcome people and acknowledge the traditional land the city is located on.

“This goal of this creative endeavor is to increase awareness, education, and conversation in the spirit of truth and reconciliation within the City and the community,” says City of Lethbridge Indigenous Relations Advisor, Perry Stein.

More information on the video can be found at the City of Lethbridge website.

by Connor Gunn