ECUAD Donor Map: The Campus

Land and Place Acknowledgement- Old campus + New campus: Announced at a throne speech in 2010, we moved from Granville Island which was near the long-time seasonal Sḵwx̱wú7mesh village Sen̓áḵw meaning “inside at the head” in Sḵwx- ̱wú7mesh snichím (language) became permanent in 1876 and was ‘dozed by settlers in 1913 to start building a road in what is known as Stanley Park. Our campus is now on Skwácháys̓ , translated as water that comes up from ground below, right now underneath it all pretty much encompasses all of the concrete now called Strathcona, South Flats, and part of Mount Pleasant neighbourhoods. Nearby was also X̱áywá7esks, “a narrow passage” or “two points exactly opposite” referring to the narrow point of the waterway, and now speaks to the Science World areas. All of this Land, Air, and Water is stewarded by Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ ̓ílwətaʔ, and xwməθkwəy̓əm nations, stolen and occupied by settlers through active colonization that is inherent to property and capitalism. How did we get here in this shiny new campus “owning” the Land? Who are our donors that paid for this? Where do we find them in our school and in our neighbourhoods? How much of the “property” in East Van do they own? What other capital investments do they hold? Who does our being here serve? And ultimately, how can we disrupt this built-in power imbalance to be better neighbours? Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fgfSeTDM9yE8u7pSS23OAGUlqciRAig_oZ9n-SektX4/edit