Our lives are storied in the fields, forests and river banks of Mohkínstsis, now known as the City of Calgary, on municipal lands in Treaty 7 region. The story, like others across North America, needs to begin with the first peoples and caretakers of the land.

We take our first steps toward reconciliation by honouring the traditional custom of welcome and acknowledge we are on the traditional territories of the peoples of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Blackfoot First Nation tribes of Siksika, the Piikuni, the Kainai, the Stoney Nakoda First Nations tribes of Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley and the Tsuut’ina First Nation. Calgary is also homeland to the historic Northwest Métis and to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region.

We are beginning to learn and better understand our Canadian history from an Indigenous perspective. Through this, we acknowledge the significant harms that have been done and also the deep wisdom Indigenous customs and ways of knowing hold and the current rightful place they have to contribute to a more beautiful, generous of spirit, equal place for all our relations.

We listen and study to further provoke our thinking and action relating to our work and reconciliation in Canada, working to re-cognize and deconstruct colonial ways of working that may perpetuate harm and impede us in our ethics of behaviour. We are finding our way, working to understand what heart-felt reconciliation looks like and how we can take action and make change in ourselves, our organization and our work.

Early in our journey, we are currently focussed on Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Actions:

92ii and 92iii - Business and Reconciliation

63iii and 63 iv - Education for Reconciliation