MHA’s Commitment to Truth and Reconciliation
We acknowledge our role in history and the injustices faced by Indigenous Peoples in Canada. We are committed to building a renewed relationship with local Indigenous Peoples and communities, fostering an environment of healing, trust, partnership and respect. By listening and learning, we can take meaningful action to support the specific health care needs and experience of Indigenous Peoples.
Land Acknowledgement
The Middlesex Hospital Alliance acknowledges that our two Hospital sites are on Indigenous land that has been inhabited by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years. There are longstanding relationships of the three local First Nations groups of these lands and in Middlesex County. We wish to recognize the three First Nations communities with longstanding ties to this area: Chippewa of the Thames First Nation (Anishinaabe); Oneida Nation of the Thames (Haudenosaunee); and Munsee-Delaware Nation (Leni-Lunaape) and wish to show respect to these communities today.
We acknowledge and thank all generations of Indigenous People across Turtle Island for their commitment, contributions, and protection of the land and its resources and acknowledge that this is sacred land upon which we are privileged to live and work.