Welcome to “But First, Acknowledgement!”

We are so excited you are here, ready to discover more about crafting and giving a Land Acknowledgement.

This project strives to bring together everything you will need to begin the journey of supporting indigenous people and their causes. It does this through acknowledging the history and the present state of the land you occupy, acknowledging the original stewards of the land, connecting this history to your past and present (or the past and present of your institution or event), and identifying key actions you can take in support of the requests and causes of indigenous people today. 

What you will need:

  • A notebook and a writing instrument

  • Google (or any web browser)


Check out the course curriculum

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About the Creators/Contributors:

But First, Acknowledgement! was started by Laura Ingalls as part of her participation in Landmark’s Team, Management, and Leadership Program. Laura is a descendant of Edmond Ingalls, an English colonizer who arrived in the port of what is now called Salem, Massachusetts aboard the ship “The Abigail” in 1628. She is also descended from the Corey and Samia families who immigrated to this land from Lebanon in the early 1900’s. 

Contributors:
Katherine Webb, Cherokee
Meranda Roberts, PhD, Northern Paiute/Chicana
Ariya Lawson
Emma Beck
Erin Rubin
Elizabeth Cole
Joshua Seamon
Kendra Corrie

The founders and contributors to this project would like to acknowledge that we live, work, eat, and sleep on the unceded traditional homelands of the indigenous peoples of this land including, but not limited to, the Pawtucket, Wampanoag, Nipmuc, Pocumtuc, Mohegan, Mohican, Narragansett, Nauset, Massachusett, Muscogee, Timucua, Tongva, Cherokee, Kizh, Three Fires Confederacy: Potawatami, Ojibwe, Odawa; and also the Sac and Fox, Myaamia, Inoka, Ho-Chunk, Peoria and Menominee. May we always honor these Nations, their sovereignty, their ways of life, and the love they have for their ancestors. May we be responsible for our role in their present and future by ceeding space for their voices, their needs, and their requests. We are all on Native land.