We recognize the Indigenous peoples as the original stewards of the land, water, plants, and animals who call land we now reside on home. It is important to recognize that we are here because of the painful history of genocide and forced removal from these territories. We seek to honor the legacy, lives, and descendants.

We acknowledge the stolen land on which we sit and we occupy rests on the ancestral lands and traditional territories of multiple tribal nations including:

• The unceded, stolen lands of the Anacostans (also documented as Nacotchtank), and neighbor the ancestral lands of the Piscataway and Pamunkey peoples. (Washington, District of Columbia)

• The unceded and non-federally recognized land belongs to the Chumash and Gabrielino-Tongva, and Kizh Nations. (Los Angeles, California)

• The unceded land, stolen from the Powhatan and Cherokee Nations (Virginia)

• The unceded land and former village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River (Portland, Oregon)

To donate to a land back group called the Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy working to create a community center for Indigenous people, maintain cultural practices, have space for traditional Ceremony, work on language revitalization, provide housing for Indigenous elders, and archive community documents. You can do so here: https://tongva.land/

To contribute to this Land Acknowledgement, or share groups to donate for land back, please send your statement or the organization/group to hello@reimaginingunconference.com.