NYU LA Land Acknowledgement Statement

As a multicultural and educational institution, NYU Los Angeles strives to understand the longstanding history that has brought us to reside on this land, and seeks to understand our place within that history.  

The faculty, staff and students at NYU Los Angeles acknowledge our presence on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as well as the Chumash and Kizh peoples, on whose land the NYU LA Academic Center resides.  We acknowledge the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders), and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.  

We give thanks to these peoples for the ability to learn and work on their native lands and recognize the enduring presence of native peoples on this land while continuing to consider the many legacies of violence, displacement, migration, and settlement that bring us here today.  We believe that historical awareness of Indigenous exclusion and erasure is critically important and are committed to working to overcome their effects in our own educational institutions.