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ASU Library Indigenous Land Acknowledgement

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ASU Library Indigenous Land Acknowledgement

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Link to the Land Statement
The ASU Library acknowledges the twenty-two Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries. Arizona State University's four campuses are located in the Salt River Valley on ancestral territories of Indigenous peoples, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) Indian Communities, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. ASU Library acknowledges the sovereignty of these nations and seeks to foster an environment of success and possibility for Native American students and patrons. We are advocates for the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge systems and research methodologies within contemporary library practice. ASU Library welcomes members of the Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh, and all Native nations to the Library.

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How do you incorporate music into your daily lives?

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What forms of music do you listen to?

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Is music a place that you can express yourself/creativity?

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Public Enemy - Fight The Power (Official Music Video)

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O'odham singers at protest

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Published: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - 5:17pm

Updated: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - 5:38pm

(Photo by Stina Sieg - KJZZ)

"No desecration for transportation!" loudly chanted a band of protesters, standing in the sun.

The members of three local Native American tribes were outside an Arizona Dept. of transportation meeting Wednesday and speaking out against an extension of the Valley's Loop 202 Freeway. It has been in the works for three decades and controversial just as long. Now, construction could be about a year away.

The protesters were outside an event featuring presentations from development companies hoping to build the South Mountain Freeway. Andrew Pedro is from the Gila River Indian Community. The freeway will damage South Mountain, he said, an important site for his tribe.

"To harm that mountain is harming us as indigenous people, as O'Odham people," he said. "Because that mountain is a part of our creation stories and tales, things that we use and know."

ADOT spokesman Tim Tait said the freeway will go through South Mountain Park Preserve. But he said his agency had no choice after the Gila River Indian Community voted against allowing the roadway to go through their land.

There will be small impacts from the project.

"But there are impacts to doing nothing," Tait said. "And the regional transportation plan and the mobility necessary to move people and the economy really dictate that we continue to enhance the transportation system that we have today."

In May, South Mountain Freeway opponents sued ADOT over the plan, but the agency still expects the 22-mile stretch to be open to traffic within the next five years.

Local tribes say the 22-mile stretch of road will costly at nearly $2 billion, and will cut through South Mountain Park Preserve - which several tribes hold sacred.
(Photo by Stina Sieg - KJZZ)

But ADOT says it had no choice but to cut through the park, after the Gila River Indian Community voted not to allow the freeway on their land.
(Photo by Stina Sieg - KJZZ)

The group did not speak in front of the meeting, but walked through the room at the very end of the event, while shouting, "ADOT is racist!"
(Photo by Stina Sieg - KJZZ)

ADOT estimates freeway construction will begin in a year, and that the South Mountain Freeway could be car-ready by 2019 or 2020.
(Photo by Stina Sieg - KJZZ)

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"No desecration for transportation!" loudly chanted a band of protesters, standing in the sun.The members of three local Native American tribes were outside an Arizona Dept. of transportation meeting Wednesday and speaking out against an extension of the Valley's Loop 202 Freeway. It has been in the works for three decades and controversial just as long.

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OCCUPATION and LOCKDOWN of Tucson Border Patrol HQ. 5/21/10

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Song about the Seneca Nation & the kinzua dam

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Song about the Seneca Nation & the kinzua dam

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A powerful Inuk experimental artist who incorporates poetry, indigenous singing techniques and punk rock into her music. She's very similar to Björk, but more experimental and sends protest messages in her music.

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Tanya Tagaq: Retribution - Musical Instrument Museum

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Celebrated Inuk performer Tanya Tagaq employs exquisite, unnerving vocal improvisations that bridge traditional roots with contemporary culture.