The editorial, design, and web team of Tamil Futures worked on this publication mainly on Turtle Island, and more specifically on the traditional territories of the Anishinabeg, the Haudenosaunee, the Chippewa, the Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the New Credit territory. Our members in the South, on the East coast, reside on the Lenape homelands, and our members on the West coast, on the ancestral lands of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. We acknowledge that these lands have been stolen from its rightful caretakers, and acknowledge our own role as colonial settlers in continuing the legacy of colonial violence. We acknowledge the injustices faced by the Indigenous peoples and these gestures are meaningless without taking action to support the thriving of Indigenous peoples.
As members of a displaced people, we empathize with the pain caused by the violence of displacement. If what we have witnessed while attending protests in the streets this past year is any indication, moving towards better futures is not only possible but unstoppable. One that includes our responsibility to call out systems and structures in place which continue to oppress Black and Indigenous communities in ways that other racialized communities are not subjected to on a daily basis.
This magazine exists to amplify marginalized voices from local to distant neighbourhoods. We call upon other racialized peoples to critically think about the impact of their actions on Indigenous and Black people in your communities.
And finally, we call upon our readers to give their monetary, physical, and/or spiritual support to the following organizations, which take action on issues affecting the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island:
INDIGENOUS Environmental Network
Indian Residential School Survivors Society