Land Acknowledgement

Mika Francis, Social Services Student

Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) is located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded territory and traditional homeland of the Mi’kmaq Nation. Our relationship is based on a series of peace and friendship treaties between the Mi’kmaq Nation and the Crown, dating back to 1725. As Treaty beneficiaries, we recognize that we are all Treaty People.

As an employer or community partner, we recognize and respect that each of you may work, play, and live on ancestral, unceded and traditional homelands lands of the Indigenous, First Nation, Innu, or Inuit Peoples outside of the Mi’kmaq Nation, and we acknowledge that our activities are not limited to NSCC physical locations.

Central to the values of NSCC and the Department of Career and Employment Services, is the inalienable belief that everyone should be free from discrimination and inequality, and we recognize the uniqueness of everyone’s differences, lived experiences and self-identification.     Work-Integrated Learning is a safe space where you should expect to be treated with the respect, integrity, and fairness. This applies equally to students, employers/community partners, co-workers, vendors, and clients. and WIL practitioners (faculty and staff).

African Nova Scotian recognition

NSCC recognizes the African Nova Scotians as a distinct group who arrived here 400 years ago. From that time on, they have contributed to the infrastructure and economic wealth of the towns and cities they helped to build, but from which they could not benefit.

We honour and offer gratitude to those ancestors of African descent who came before us to this land.