Land Acknowledgement

horše ṭuuxi!

Our conference recognizes that UC Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band.

We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has, and continues to benefit from, the use and occupation of this land, since the institution’s founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community, inclusion and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university’s relationship to Native peoples. As members of the Berkeley community, it is vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the land on which we stand, but also, we recognize that the Muwekma Ohlone people are alive and flourishing members of the Berkeley and broader Bay Area communities today.

This acknowledgement was co-created with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and Native American Student Development and is a living document.

For more information - please watch the conversation hosted by Native American Student Development.

We would also like to offer our conference attendees an active way to contribute to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe through the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Through the practices of rematriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration, Sogorea Te’ calls on native and non-native peoples to heal and transform the legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy.

Our conference committee members would like to encourage all who have the ability to contribute to do so by paying the Shuumi Land Tax. The Shuumi Land Tax is a voluntary contribution that non-Indigenous people living on traditional Lisjan Ohlone territory make to support the critical work of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust.

Source of the text: Sites.google.com. 2021. LAUC-B Conference: Reimagining Libraries Through Critical Library Practices. [online] Available at: <https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/lauc-b-conference-2021/land-acknowledgement>.