While we may each be in different locations physically, we are all part of a community educators. Virtual work is also physically located on the lands on which Indigenous peoples have lived for thousands of years. It is our privilege to be able to connect our work of teaching and learning to these lands.

Please take time to consider the traditional territories and the peoples of those territories on which you currently reside and work. Native Land Digital, a BC not-for-profit society governed by an Indigenous Board of Directors, has provided an interactive map where you can begin to understand the deep significance and histories of the places on we each live and work today.

While anyone, Indigenous or not, can make a territorial acknowledgement, only a member of the Indigenous community whose land you are on can welcome you to it.

For the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The land it is situated on has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam people, who for millennia have passed on in their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next on this site.We would like to acknowledge that the WKTEP Program has typically taken place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Syilx tmixʷ (Okanagan), sngaytskstx tum-ula7xw (Sinixt), Ktunaxa ɁamakɁis, (Ktunaxa) nations. The UBC West Kooteany Campus is located on the traditional, territory of the Sinixt Arrow Lakes, the Interior Salish, the Okanagan Sylix, and the Ktunaxa People.  We acknowledge and appreciate the privilege of living, learning and playing on this land.