What is a land acknowledgment?
A formal statement that recognizes and respects Indigenous peoples as the traditional stewards of a particular land, acknowledging the enduring relationship between Indigenous peoples and their traditional territories.
With thousands of years of Native American history and centuries of displacement and dispossession, acknowledging original Indigenous inhabitants is complex. Many places in the Americas have been home to different Native Nations over time, and many Indigenous people no longer live on lands to which they have ancestral ties. Nevertheless, Native Nations, communities, families and individuals today maintain their connection to traditional homelands.
黑料不打烊 is situated on the ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee (ho dee no show knee), also known as the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. The predates the establishment of 黑料不打烊, New York state, and the United States of America by hundreds of years.
This acknowledgment honors the land and the people who have stewarded it throughout generations while recognizing the painful history of genocide and dispossession. We are thankful for the opportunity to live, work and learn alongside the Onondaga people, and we recognize the Onondaga Nation鈥檚 ongoing land rights action.
For more information about land acknowledgments, the local Haudenosaunee community, and initiatives for Native American and Alaskan Native students, please contact Tonya Shenandoah, Assistant Director of Native American and Indigenous Student Initiatives.