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Land Honor Acknowledgement provided by CFA Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus:
We gather as students, faculty, staff, and community of San Jose State University, situated on the traditional land of the Muwekma, Tamyen, and Ohlone Tribe past and present, and honor with gratitude the land itself and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations. This calls us to commit to continuing to learn how to be better stewards of the land we inhabit as well. To recognize the land is an expression of gratitude and appreciation to those whose territory we reside on and a way of honoring the Indigenous people who have been living and working on the land from time immemorial. It is important to understand the long-standing history that has brought us to reside on the land and to seek to understand our place within that history. Land acknowledgments do not exist in past tense or historical context: colonialism is a current ongoing process, and we need to build our mindfulness of our present participation. Acknowledging the land is an important Indigenous protocol that we are honoring here today.
Do you know whose land you occupy? Find out at https://native-land.ca/.