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Whose Land? www.whose.land collaborate on teaching the group about the calls and ways the organization can work towards achieving them. If participants have not finished deciding how they are going to present their learning to the group next session, they may want to dedicate some more time to this. It is up to the facilitator to decide if another work session is needed before moving on to Part 3. PART 3: TEACHING WHAT YOU LEARNED (1 HOUR) Big Idea: Groups will present their learning Inform the group that the topics presented today will be difficult to learn about. Remind them about the mental health resources available to them. Groups will take turns teaching everyone about what they learned at their station. Typically, groups will take between 5-10 minutes to present their topics. Facilitators can ask debriefing questions such as: 14. How did you feel while learning about the topic? 15. What piece of information surprised you the most? 16. How will you engage in self-care this evening? Thank groups for presenting. Inform them that during the final session they will be taking all the information they gained and creating a meaningful organizational land acknowledgment. PART 4: CREATING A LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (1 HOUR) Review and summarize the learning from Part 3. Show an example of a land acknowledgment made by an Indigenous person from the Whose Land Website homepage at: https://www.whose.land/en/ Once participants understand what a land acknowledgement is, inform them that you will, all together, create an organizational land acknowledgement. Option 1: You will, all together, create an organizational land acknowledgement. Ask participants what they think should be included in the land acknowledgement based on the examples they viewed and the information they learned last workshop. Ideally, your land acknowledgement should include the following information: • The name of the Indigenous nation(s) whose traditional territory the organization is on • How we benefit from this land (hint: we benefit from buildings on the land such as the workplace, schools, houses, hospitals, etc… plus we benefit from the land, water, sky, animals to provide us with live sustaining food, water and materials) • How Indigenous people were negatively affected by residential schools • The legacy of colonization in relation to current issues such as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls • How the organization is going to commit to the relevant Calls to Action • Plus, anything extra that participants suggested to make this land acknowledgment meaningful and personal. As an example, you might want to prompt participants to think about how they can commit to taking care of the land or how they can honour the treaties, if applicable to your region. Together as a group, go through each part of a land acknowledgement and have participants collaborate on what they think should be included. Write down their ideas using chart paper, continuously editing/adding/changing until it reads just right! This land acknowledgement can be used to open meetings, special celebrations and can be posted on the organizations website as a way to honour relationships with Indigenous peoples.

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