NCIAC LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We acknowledge that this week’s conference hosts represent colleges that are on are on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Ramaytush Ohlone, the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula, and the ancestral home - lands of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, Karkin (Ohlone), Bay Miwok, Me-Wuk, and Muweka peoples.

 

As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, these tribal nations have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of these places, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territories. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homelands.

 

We wish to honor and pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of all of California’s tribal nations by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples, and the struggles they face to maintain their cultures, languages, and identities in a world that has long tried to silence them.

 

Conference attendees occupy unceded territory throughout the state of California, home to nearly 200 tribal nations. We ask that you thoughtfully consider the tribal nations on whose land you work and live. You can check whose ancestral lands you benefit from by entering your work and school addresses on the website https://native-land.ca/

 

NCIAC also wishes to encourage our conference attendees to move past performative involvement and into transformative work. Check out the Bay Area’s Sogorea Te’ Land Trust or a group in your region. Sogorea Te’ Land Trust works on rematriation and access and their website is https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/