Lands Acknowledgement

As landscape stewards and advocates for the environment, we wish to acknowledge we learn, live, and design on taken lands. The Penn State Stuckeman School and Department of Landscape Architecture occupy the traditional lands of the Lenape, Haudenosaunee, Shawnee, Susquehannock, and other Indigenous Peoples. As a land grant university, Penn State was granted close to 778,000 acres of Indigenous land from across the present day United States through the Morrill Act of 1862, most of which was sold to fund the University’s endowment. This land was the traditional land of over 112 Indigenous tribes, including the Yakama, Menominee, Apache, Cheyenne Arapaho, Pomo, Ho Chunk, Sac and Fox Nation, and Klamath.

We benefit from and are accountable for our widespread impact on these lands, peoples, and property ownership systems that shape our relations to the past, present, and future.

In addition, in this course, we are benefiting from the past and present Indigenous and urban Indigenous peoples who live in Iquitos, Peru, and in particular, in the community of Claverito. We acknowledge the role the United States and Europe played and continues to play in colonialism, structural racism, and resource extraction that has widespread impacts on the lands and their connection to culture, ecological destruction, health inequity, land insecurity, and more.

We will work hard to not contribute further to these inequities in the context of this class.

Recommended citation for this book: Andrews, Leann, Rebecca Bachman, Olivia Boon, Christopher Coughlin, Thomas Darlington, Keith Faminiano, Parker Kingshipp, Andrew Kuka, Anne Lai, Tegan Lochner, Megan Cherpak, Yael Andrade, Stephen Mainzer, Justin Brown. PennStateLARCH414DesignActivismStudio:DesigningforOneHealthintheAmphibiousInformal CommunityofClaverito,Iquitos,Peru . The Pennsylvania State University. 2023. ISBN: 979-8-218-23594-9.