Thanks & Acknowledgements

At Columbia University we are working on the unceded land of the Lenape people, who were violently dispossessed from this place. We honor their roots here, and the strength it has taken to resist and rebuild both here and elsewhere. Work for this exhibit was created on the lands of the Munsee Lenape, Wappinger, Canarsie, Matinecock, Haudenosaunee, Anishinabewaki, Mississauga, Wendake-Nionwentsïo, Piscataway, Anacostan, Lumbee, Kaskaskia, Potawatomi, Peoria, Kiikaapoi, Myaamia, Shoshone-Bannock, Eastern Shoshone, and Cheyenne peoples. (Thank you, Native Land Digital!)

As oral historians, we also acknowledge the roots of our practice in indigenous oral history, and the ways in which our field has excluded indigenous people and practices. This acknowledgement is only the beginning of a process of building honoring indigenous land, people, and knowledge into our practices as oral historians for the purposes of healing, reconciliation, learning, resurgence, and the pursuit of justice.