Acknowledgement With Thanks In Sacramento
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This statement recognizes that Sacramento is the ancestral homeland of the Nisenan, Maidu, Miwok and Me-Wuk peoples, who are the Indigenous Peoples of this land, and have lived here since time immemorial.
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The members of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians are descendants of the Miwok and Southern Maidu “Nisenan” Indians who thrived in California's fertile central valley for thousands of years before contact with Europeans.
The land acknowledgement statement has been approved by both the campus and the three federally recognized Patwin tribes: the Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian Community, the Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation and the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation.
We acknowledge that we are standing on the tribal lands of Sacramento's Indigenous people. Why Land Acknowledgment? Today, we recognize that change can only occur in the context of truthfulness, transparency, and reconciliation around systems that have oppressed and excluded Indigenous people.
My Land Acknowledgement I acknowledge and give thanks to the land on which we live and work, and to the people who have cared for it. This land is the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and the Anishinaabeg nations, within the lands protected by the Dish with One Spoon wampum agreement.
We honor and thank the Nisenan (Nice-ih-NUN), Miwok (MEE-Wock), Cayuse (KY-yoose), Umatilla (you-muh-TILL-uh), and Walla Walla peoples as our community partners and the traditional inhabitants of the territories of Rancho Cordova, Sacramento, and surrounding areas.
Over four thousand years ago, the Patwin Indians were the first inhabitants of the area now known as the City of West Sacramento. These Native Americans established villages on the west bank of the Sacramento River and their members often numbered in the hundreds.
We acknowledge that we are standing on the tribal lands of Sacramento's Indigenous people. Why Land Acknowledgment? Today, we recognize that change can only occur in the context of truthfulness, transparency, and reconciliation around systems that have oppressed and excluded Indigenous people.
A land acknowledgment is a statement that recognizes an area's original inhabitants who have been forcibly dispossessed of their homelands and is a step toward recognizing the negative impacts these communities have endured and continue to endure, as a result.
