Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Land acknowledgement

[Richard Gravrok (rick.gravrok]

These are what I use in different venues or groups. 

GENERIC Land Acknowledgement (for anywhere in USA):
We collectively acknowledge that we reside on this land that was cared for and 
called home by Native peoples from time immemorial, we offer this land 
acknowledgment, affirm tribal sovereignty and hold ourselves and affiliations 
accountable to American Indian peoples and nations. 

MINNESOTA Land Acknowledgement
We collectively acknowledge that Minnesota is located on the traditional, 
ancestral, and contemporary lands of Indigenous peoples. As people residing on 
this land that was cared for and called home by the Anishinaabe, Dakota, or 
Northern Cheyenne peoples, and other Native peoples from time immemorial, we 
offer this land acknowledgment, affirm tribal sovereignty and hold ourselves 
and affiliations accountable to American Indian peoples and nations. 

Also, we acknowledge and honor the Black, Asian and immigrant peoples who built 
the wealth and infrastructure of this land, much of it as racialized slaves, 
this traumatic legacy - of which exists today in the USA - where slavery still 
flourishes legally as mass incarceration. We commit to building a just and 
equitable world together with and for people of all colors, a planet more 
secure/harmonious/safe and life-giving for all creation. 
I use them at my UU church (First Universalist Church of Mpls regularly with 
our Environmental Justice team) and in my Men’s group (the ManKind Project). 
MKP USA has an alliance with a community of Native Americans at Pineridge 
Indian Reservation, if interested check out: http://mkpusa.org/oyate/

Miigwech

Rick Gravrok
952-220-8153 iPhone
952-926-6655 landline
Monterey Cohousing Community
St. Louis Park, MN
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> On Nov 2, 2021, at 5:56 AM, David Entin <davidhentin [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> communities have done to acknowledge the original indigenous inhabitants of 
> the land their cohousing community now occupies.  We would welcome hearing 
> from other communities through this medium or direct email contact.  Thank 
> you.  David Entin. davidentin [at] comcast.net <mailto:davidentin [at] 
> comcast.net>