Land Acknowledgement
The city of Hamilton is situated upon the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas. Â
This land is covered by The Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, which was an agreement between the Haudenosaunee and Ashinabek to share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.
We further acknowledge that this land is covered by The Between the Lakes Purchase, 1792, between the Crown and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.
A Dish With One Spoon, also known as One Dish One Spoon, is a law used by indigenous peoples of the Americas since at least 1142 AD to describe an agreement for sharing hunting territory among two or more nations. People are all eating out of the single dish, that is, all hunting in the shared territory. One spoon signifies that all Peoples sharing the territory are expected to limit the game they take to leave enough for others, and for the continued abundance and viability of the hunting grounds into the future. - Wikipedia