"We collectively acknowledge that Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. In particular, the University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. We recognize, support, and advocate for the sovereignty of Michigan’s twelve federally-recognized Indian nations, for historic Indigenous communities in Michigan, for Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and for those who were forcibly removed from their Homelands. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold Michigan State University more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples."

This Provisional Land Acknowledgement was developed in Binaakwe-giizis // Leaves Falling Moon – October 2018. The Provisional Land Acknowledgement is a living document developed by American Indian and Indigenous Studies and will be further developed and revised in conversation with communities.

Please find my personal statement on land acknowledgement here, where I also address my responsibilities to engage in dismantling all forms of oppressive systems.

Land Reparations & Indigenous Solidarity Toolkit
https://resourcegeneration.org/land-reparations-indigenous-solidarity-action-guide/

Unsettling America
https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/