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Moravian University, Main Street, Bethlehem, PA, USA

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Moravian University, Main Street, Bethlehem, PA, USA

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Moravian University, Main Street, Bethlehem, PA, USA

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Draft Territorial Acknowledgement
Written in collaboration with students in our indigenous studies courses and representatives of the Delaware Nation.

I/we would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather in Lenapehoking, the Lenape People's ancestral territory. William Penn’s heirs dispossessed the Lenape with the fraudulent Walking Purchase of 1737. Subsequent broken treaties and violent conflicts forced the Lenape People from their homelands. The majority of Lenape communities settled in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario where they live today as federally recognized sovereign Nations. I/we urge those of us who benefit from their dispossession to commit ourselves to reckoning with history and the legacies of colonialism. Today we strive to be responsible caretakers of the lands we stand on and build ongoing reciprocal relationships necessary for conciliation with Indigenous peoples.

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University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

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University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

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University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

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We would like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is the territory of the Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett,  Nipmuc, and Lenape Peoples, who have stewarded this land throughout the generations.  We thank them for their strength and resilience in protecting this land, and aspire to uphold our responsibilities according to their example.

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Colorado College, East Cache La Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

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Colorado College, East Cache La Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

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Colorado College, East Cache La Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

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COLORADO COLLEGE
Located on Nunt'zi (Ute), Inunaina (Arapaho), and So'taa'e (Cheyenne) traditional homelands

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Monash University Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, Clayton VIC, Australia

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Monash University Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, Clayton VIC, Australia

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Monash University Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, Clayton VIC, Australia

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Monash University respects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and cultures. Recognising Traditional Owners is important and all staff and students are encouraged to do so. There are two ways for Monash staff and students to formally recognise Traditional Owners: a Welcome to Country and an Acknowledgement of Country. An Acknowledgment of Country allows the wider community (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) to show respect for and acknowledge the Traditional Owners; their rich culture, their heritage and their continual relationship with the lands and waters. It demonstrates that we value and recognise the Traditional Owners' customary place within Australian society today. We wish to acknowledge the people of the Kulin Nations, on whose land we are gathered today. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.

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Indiana University Bloomington, South Indiana Avenue, Bloomington, IN, USA

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Indiana University Bloomington, South Indiana Avenue, Bloomington, IN, USA

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Indiana University Bloomington, South Indiana Avenue, Bloomington, IN, USA

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Indiana University Bloomington
We wish to acknowledge and honor the Indigenous communities native to this region, and recognize that Indiana University Bloomington is built on Indigenous homelands and resources. We recognize the myaamiki, Lënape, Bodwéwadmik, and saawanwa people as past, present, and future caretakers of this land.

We are dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voice & perspective, improving community relationships, correcting the narrative, and making the IUB campus a more supportive and inclusive place for Native and Indigenous students, faculty & staff.  We encourage everyone to engage with contemporary communities, to learn the histories of this land, to look at who has and does not have access to its resources, and to examine your own place, abilities, and obligations within this process of reparative work that is necessary to promote a more equitable and socially just Indiana University Bloomington.

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Colorado State: video

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Colorado State University Land Acknowledgment

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Colorado State University
Colorado State University acknowledges, with respect, that the land we are on today is the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples. This was also a site of trade, gathering, and healing for numerous other Native tribes. We recognize the Indigenous peoples as original stewards of this land and all the relatives within it. As these words of acknowledgment are spoken and heard, the ties Nations have to their traditional homelands are renewed and reaffirmed.

CSU is founded as a land-grant institution, and we accept that our mission must encompass access to education and inclusion. And, significantly, that our founding came at a dire cost to Native Nations and peoples whose land this University was built upon. This acknowledgment is the education and inclusion we must practice in recognizing our institutional history, responsibility, and commitment.

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Boston University
We acknowledge that the territory on which Boston University stands is that of The Wampanoag and The Massachusett People. BU’s campus are places to honor and respect the history and continued efforts of the Native and Indigenous community leaders which make up Eastern Massachusetts and the surrounding region. This statement is one small step in acknowledging the history that brought us to reside on the land, and to help us seek understanding of our place within that history. Ownership of land is itself a colonial concept; many tribes had seasonal relationships with the land we currently inhabit. Today, Boston is still home to indigenous peoples, including the Mashpee Wampanoag and Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). For more information, please visit the North American Indian Center of Boston and the Commission on Indian Affairs of the State of Massachusetts.

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Vanderbilt University, West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, USA

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Vanderbilt University, West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, USA

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Vanderbilt University, West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, USA

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Vanderbilt University

We collectively acknowledge that Vanderbilt University occupies the ancestral and traditional Lands of the Cherokee and Shawnee peoples. Today, the Cherokee and Shawnee people have nation boundaries in Oklahoma, after the Indian Removal Act of 1830 led to the forced removal of southern tribes west of the Mississippi River. In particular, the University resides on Land ceded on November 8, 1795 in the Treaty of Hopewell.  We recognize, support, and advocate for the Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and for those forcibly removed from their Homelands. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold Vanderbilt University more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.

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Michigan Technological University, Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI, USA

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Michigan Technological University, Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI, USA

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Michigan Technological University, Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI, USA

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Michigan Technological University
Michigan Technological University is located within Ojibwa (Chippewa) homelands and ceded-territory established by the Treaty of 1842, the territory of Native American nations in Gakiiwe'onaning (Keweenaw Bay), Gete-gitgaaning (Lac Vieux Desert), Mashkii-ziibing (Bad River), Odaawaa-zaaga'iganing (Lac Courte Oreilles), Waaswaaganing (Lac Du Flambeau), Miskwaabikong (Red Cliff), Wezaawaagami-ziibiing (St. Croix), and Zaka'aaganing (Sokaogon Mole Lake).