Holistic & Blended 

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We acknowledge we are on the ancestral lands of Indigenous Peoples from time immemorial. Indigenous Peoples had and continue to have extended networks of relatives that include human and nonhuman life as well as the seen and the unseen across unique geopolitical spaces.

Through treaty, executive order, or statute, settlers of this continent appropriated land and resources at the expense of Indigenous peoples and the natural world. We recognize these Peoples, our ancestors and elders who suffered forced removal, relocation, and genocide to accommodate others in the name of progress.

Today, Indigenous resistance, sovereignty, and resiliency have sustained this country's 567 federally recognized and 63 state-recognized American Indian/Native American/Alaska Native/Indigenous tribes living on tribal territories, rural, or urban areas.

I live in the Boston area This land is the territory of the Massachusetts Nation and their neighbors the Wampanoag and Nipmuc Peoples, who have stewarded this land for hundreds of generations. Today, Boston is home to thousands of Indigenous people from across Turtle Island, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work here.

With humility, we recognize and respect all Indigenous Peoples, their histories, and their ties to the land (Council on Social Work Education, Commission for Diversity and Social and Economic Justice, 2020).