Major League Baseball’s Toronto Blue Jays opened the season at home for the third consecutive year, acknowledging that the team is indeed playing on Indigenous land.
This will also be the fourth season that the team will present track and field awards at home games. Since late September 2021, the Blue Jays organization, along with professional teams the Toronto Raptors and Toronto Maple Leafs, have declared before games that the Rogers Center is actually on Indigenous “traditional territory.”
This declaration was made around the time Canada approved it. National Day for Truth and Reconciliation The national holiday was previously known as Orange Shirt Day and was celebrated as such by Toronto sports teams. national post office.
The Blue Jays organization recognizes that it is “based on Treaty 13 lands, the Traditional Territories of Mississauga in Credit.” Website I explained. The team also acknowledges that it is “located in the traditional homelands of many other peoples, including the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewa, and Wendat peoples.”
AnishinaabegFor example, this is not a specific tribe, but rather a set of tribes grouped together to refer to the region around them. the Great Lakes In the United States and Canada, the purpose is usually political activity.
“We are honored to work with and learn from communities across the country we now call Canada,” the official acknowledgment continued. “Therefore, we want to recognize all First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples whose original treaty territory is located throughout Turtle Island (also known as North America).”
The more recent land certificate is very different from the 2021 one written by Canada’s “artist and custodian of ancestral knowledge.”
This expression included recognition of “our Mother Earth” and “the Seven Grandfather Teachings: Wisdom, Courage, Respect, Honesty, Truth, Humility, and Love.”
Also,”medicine wheel and its teachings,” as well as all four cardinal directions and seasons.
The Blue Jays organization has certainly engaged in a series of politically committed efforts as part of its ongoing reconciliation project.
This includes providing “anti-racism awareness and training programs” and adhering to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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