The ALC 17 organizing committee wishes to acknowledge the many Native Nations of the Tucson area on whose land the University of Arizona rests. As a Hispanic Serving Institution and as a Land Grant University, UA owes its establishing endowment to the Native Peoples of this region. It sits on the traditional homelands of the Tohono O’odham Nation and the Pascua Yaqui tribe, and benefits from the multilingual, multiethnic and multinational community of the Sonoran Desert.