The land on which we gather and organize is the territory of the
Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and
the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Today, the meeting place
of Toronto is home to many Indigenous peoples.
A territorial acknowledgement can demonstrate a coming to awareness,
and provoke thought and reflection, all of which are essential in
beginning to establish reciprocal relations. This acknowledgement
should not function as closure, resignation, or acceptance of the
structural conditions of settler colonialism that remain in effect
today. The Images Festival will continue to ask what it means for us
to keep open a spirit of sustained inquiry into the complexities of
our context.