Land Acknowledgement
written for Revv52 by Richard Harrison
When we are joined by song, we renew our shared humanity. So it is for us today. So it has been for thousands of years for the first peoples to name this land home and who gathered where the rivers meet to sing their place in creation: the Blackfoot Confederacy: Siksika, the Kainai and the Pikani; the Tsuut’ina people, and the Nakoda Nations: Chiniki, Bearspaw, Goodstoney; and the Métis peoples of Districts 5 and 6. When we acknowledge the land, we acknowledge our place in the story of the land, and its children. We remember that the gifts of life are the rewards of care. And we are called to the task of healing silences past by writing together the song of a better future for all.