Land and Labor Acknowledgements

We pay tribute to this land, the ancestral home of the Menominee, Ho-Chunk, and Potawatomi Nations and the current homeland of the Oneida Nation. We recognize and respect the inherent sovereignty of all First Nations and revere the land and water as sacred, historic, and life-sustaining. We hold in memory the ongoing contributions of First Nation peoples in our communities.

We recognize the initial and ongoing economic advantages accrued by colonizers and their descendants through the horrors of the transatlantic trafficking of Africans, chattel slavery, Jim Crow, and systemic discrimination. We acknowledge the Indigenous and Black claims to life and acknowledge these tremors of violence passed down through generations and their descendants who continue to bear the weight.