The Ripple Effect Education

Save the date!
We are so excited to be attending Woolwich pride this year! Stop by our TREE booth to say hello!

Mark your calendars and come celebrate love, inclusion, and pride with us! 💛

📅 Saturday, June 13, 2026
🕐 1:00 – 4:00 PM
📍 Gibson Park, Elmira

Happy National Indigenous History Month! This month is an opportunity to educate ourselves about Indigenous history and culture and to celebrate Indigenous changemakers and wisdom keepers who have made significant impacts on peacebuilding work.

For those of us who are settlers, it is also an important opportunity to reflect on our responsibility to decolonize our lives, perspectives, and practices. We must take tangible steps on the path to reconciliation and recognize that colonialism does not exist only in past-tense; it is an ongoing process and issue. We are all on stolen land and we all have a part to play in uplifting and centering Indigenous history.

The Ripple Effect Education recognizes with gratitude and reverence that we live, work, and play on the traditional and current territories of the Neutral, Anishnaabe, and Haudenosaunee Peoples. The TREE office is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations, which includes ten kilometers on each side of the Grand River. We also recognize that land acknowledgements are only a piece of the lifelong work that is reconciliation and decolonization. We are committed to reflecting on how we have been complicit in colonialism and to challenging colonialism systemically, interpersonally, and within ourselves.

We also want to uplift and celebrate the incredible Indigenous activists, community groups, organizers, and peacebuilders within our own community. We appreciate the opportunity to learn from you and the invaluable contributions you make to our region through education, wisdom, activism, culture, art, and more.

Take time to learn about Indigenous history this month and continue educating yourself moving forward.