Land Acknowledgement
Maten (Kim Fontaine, Mathieu McKenzie, and Samuel Pinette) filmed at Rivière Moisie, near Mani-Utenam (Maliotenam), Québec, in tribute to Florent Vollant for the 2021 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.
Vérité Films acknowledges that our offices are located on the unceded territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, who have been the guardians of, and in relationship with, these lands for thousands of years. We acknowledge that Toronto (Tkaronto) is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit. We acknowledge that our work reaches across all of the distinct First Nations, Métis Homelands, and Inuit Nunangat, and for this we are grateful.
We further acknowledge that we are all treaty people and accept our responsibility to honour all our relations across Turtle Island with peace, reciprocity, and respect.
We encourage everyone to learn more about the land you live on by visiting and exploring native-land.ca, to read the Truth and Reconciliation Report, which you can find at trc.ca, and to donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society at irsss.ca.