We are recording on unceded Dakota land, and we will be reading a land acknowledgement from Jennings Mergenthal, Class of 2021. We thank them for their time and effort in crafting this land acknowledgement.

We would like to acknowledge that Macalester College is located on the traditional, ancestral and contemporary lands of the Waȟpékhute band of Dakhóta Oyáte, the Dakota nation.

We make this acknowledgement to respect and affirm the sovereignty of the Dakota people, ancestors and descendants, and to respect the land itself.

We recognize that this acknowledgment is but a first step in recognizing and dismantling aggressive and persistent policies of settler colonialism that continue to oppress to this day. These are the contexts in which the college functions to this day. The work of acknowledgement must be paired with active practices like the amplification of Indigenous voices and land repatriation in order to be substantive and meaningful.

This podcast also discusses the lives, histories and land of the Ojibwe and Kanaka Maoli. We realize that doing a land acknowledgement for the lands of the Ojibwe and the Kanaka Maoli is beyond our capacity. Doing one without the proper knowledge and relations is performative. In this non-land acknowledgment, we still want to recognize and respect the land, histories, sovereignties of the Ojibwe and Kanaka Maoli, and remind you, our audience, to do so too. And beyond the recognition in our podcast, we must pair it with active practices for it to be meaningful.

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