This research takes place across many traditional lands.

Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University are 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. The University of British Columbia, Okanagan respectfully acknowledges that we live and work in the unceded and ancestral territory of the Syilx people since time immemorial.