Territorial and Cultural Acknowledgement

The Université du Québec à Montréal as well as the Université de Montréal and McGill University are located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Nation. Laval University is on the traditional and unceded territory of the Abenaki and Wabenaki Confederacy and the Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet)

It is essential to recognize Indigenous territories and Indigenous sovereignty, especially within the context of field based research.
To learn more about the Indigenous communities where you live and work, check out native-land.ca.

This statement is based on the territorial and cultural acknowledgement statement of the Micromet Lab at the University of British Columbia.

Field Sites

Our field sites are located in the Statl̕əẃ (Sto:lo) River Delta (aka the Fraser River Delta). This map below shows the overlapping territories and conveys the multiplicity of occupancy of First Nations wh in and around the Statl̕əẃ delta. This area encompass the traditional territories of a number of First Nations, including the:

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xʷməθkʷəy̓əm
Stó:lō
sc̓əwaθenaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsawwassen)
kwantlen
Semiahmoo
Stz’uminus
Á,LEṈENEȻ ȽTE (W̱SÁNEĆ)
sq̓əc̓iy̓aɁɬ təməxʷ (Katzie)
And others

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