Fort Smith (Thebacha: “beside the rapids” – Chippewan) is located in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, within Treaty 8 Territory, comprising the traditional lands of Salt River First Nation, Smith’s Landing First Nation, and the Fort Smith NWT Métis Nation.

We acknowledge that the harmful impacts of Canada’s settler colonial systems are ongoing, and that we are individually and collectively called upon to take meaningful action to confront these systemic forms of discrimination and violence. As a business, we aim to operate in a way that provides equitable access to our services, to continually create opportunities to give back to our community, and to find opportunities to collaborate in support of local initiatives, especially those that are Indigenous-led.

The Den is committed to creating a welcoming, compassionate, truthful, anti-racist, culturally safe, and trauma-informed space for our community, in which we can freely and open-heartedly move, meditate, connect, consult, and collaborate together.

We understand that this can be an imperfect and challenging learning process, and yet we remain open and humble to all that is shared as we pursue this intention.