JSMA at PSU acknowledges that the lands on which Portland State University stands today are the historic homelands of several bands of Chinook-speaking people including many Multnomah, Clackamas, and Watlata/Cascade villages. There were also Kalapuya (Tualatin villages) nearby and the Molalla people in the Willamette Valley. Today their descendants are primarily members of the Grande Ronde and Siletz Confederated Tribes, with Chinook and other tribal relations at Warm Springs, Yakima, and the Chinook Nation. A number of Native American individuals and groups own land in Multnomah County on modern terms. Multnomah County is unceded Indian land and, in this sense, remains contestable space. In addition to the federally recognized tribes located primarily in the state of Oregon, we acknowledge the presence of numerous "unrecognized" tribes and indigenous groups.