Thank you so much for this post. I was trying to decide how to recognize this day, as the descendant of colonizers and settlers. I ended up writing a Land Acknowledgement for the place where my home is:
My home is on ancestral lands of the Ho-Chunk people, a place their nation has called Teejop (day-JOPE) (Four Lakes) since time immemorial.
In an 1832 treaty, the Ho-Chunk were forced to cede this territory. Decades of ethnic cleansing followed when both the federal and state government repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, sought to forcibly remove the Ho-Chunk from Wisconsin.
I honor their legacy of resistance and resilience.
I respect the inherent sovereignty of the Ho-Chunk Nation and the other 11 First Nations in what is now called the State of Wisconsin.
Thank you so much for this post. I was trying to decide how to recognize this day, as the descendant of colonizers and settlers. I ended up writing a Land Acknowledgement for the place where my home is:
My home is on ancestral lands of the Ho-Chunk people, a place their nation has called Teejop (day-JOPE) (Four Lakes) since time immemorial.
In an 1832 treaty, the Ho-Chunk were forced to cede this territory. Decades of ethnic cleansing followed when both the federal and state government repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, sought to forcibly remove the Ho-Chunk from Wisconsin.
I honor their legacy of resistance and resilience.
I respect the inherent sovereignty of the Ho-Chunk Nation and the other 11 First Nations in what is now called the State of Wisconsin.
Thank you, Jenny!
Why just a day?? Seems every other non-white, non gendered, non male citizen has a month long dedication!
There is, Gene! https://www.nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/
Thank You, I should have known, although it certainly isn't front and center like some of the others, sadly.
Agree.