The Calgary John Howard Society operates in Treaty 7 Territory. This is the traditional and ancestral lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy and the Otipemisiwak Metis Government of the Metis Nation within Alberta Districts Five and Six; the original keepers of this land belonged to the Kainai, Siksika and Piikani Indigenous First Nations which included Tsuut’ina of the Dene Nation, Bearspaw, Chiniki and Wesley Bands of the Stoney Nation. The traditional names for the City of Calgary are “Mohkintsis” (meaning Elbow in Blackfoot), “Otoskunee” (meaning Elbow in Cree), “Wincheeshpah” (meaning Elbow in Stoney Nakoda) and “Kootsisaw” (meaning Elbow in Dene –Tsuut’ina). Today and every day we acknowledge all the elders and knowledge keepers of this land.