2024 Community Report - Flipbook - Page 4
Truth, Reconciliation, and
Your Library
Waterloo Public Library is located on the Haldimand Tract, land granted
to the Haudenosaunee of the Six Nations of the Grand River. It is situated
within the ancestral territory of the Anishnaabe, Haudenosaunee, and
Neutral people who may have called themselves Chonnonton. These 昀椀rst
people cared for the land on which we gather for many generations before
European settlement.
As an organization that exists to make public spaces, credible resources
and opportunities for learning available to everyone, the library is active in
the work of truth and reconciliation. Preserving, amplifying and celebrating
Indigenous stories is an important part of the work we do.
We commit to the daily work of reconciliation. This means learning and
decision-making that recognizes the ongoing impact of colonialism as well
as re昀氀ection, partnership and action that can make reconciliation possible.
