Land Acknowledgment

When we talk about the environment, we cannot ignore the fact that we are living on land that does not belong to us, land that was forcibly taken by white settlers who then committed genocide on the tribes who once lived there. It can be easy for solarpunk and other environmental activism to fall into familiar colonizer pathways of thought and ideas and we want to push back against that. We acknowledge the people whose land we live on.

The Piscataway Conoy tribe, who can be found at piscatawaytribe.org.

The St. Croix Chippewa, who can be found at stcroixojibwe-nsn.gov.

The Kiikaapoi, or Kickapoo, who can be found at www.ktik-nsn.gov.

The Kaskaskia people, who are now part of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, and can be found at peoriatribe.com.

The Osage nation, who can be found at osagenation-nsn.gov.

The Ochethi Sakowin confederacy, who can be found atsdpb.org/learn/nativeamerican/oceti.

The Tsalaguwetiyi or Eastern Cherokee, who can be found at ebci.com/.

The Uchee, or Yuchi, tribe, whose Savannah River Band can be found at srbeucheetribe.org.

The Muscogee, or Creek Confederacy, who can be found at muscogeenation.com.

The Shawnee tribe, who can be found at shawnee-nsn.gov.

The Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy, who consisted of the Mohawk (mbq-tmt.org), the Cayuga (cayuganation-nsn.gov), the Seneca (sni.org), the Oneida (oneidaindiannation.com), the Onondaga (onondaganation.org), and the Tuscarora (tuscaroras.com).

We used native-land.ca to find out whose land we live on.