The 2025 Triennial NUPGE Convention will take place on the traditional and unceded territories of the Wolastoqiyik, and land stewarded by the Wabanaki Confederacy, created by the Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Abenaki, and Wolastoqiyik peoples.
Just north of the convention center is Sitansisk Wolastoqiyik (St.Mary’s First Nation). We are grateful to Sakom (Chief) Allan Polchies Jr., for opening our convention, and to the multiple artists from Sitansisk who created the art attendees will find in their delegate kits. We commit to ensuring Indigenous leadership is visible and supported in this space, not as a gesture, but as a practice of return—beginning with reciprocity for local Indigenous communities. We recognize the National Union’s privilege of crossing provincial and territorial borders freely to host delegates from coast to coast stems from centuries of harm and crime against Indigenous peoples. We dedicate ourselves, as a union, to move forward reconciliation beyond the moment of this convention.