On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we want to share the profound words of the Land Acknowledge Statement crafted by indigenous students, faculty, alumni and community members of the University of Michigan-Flint.

This statement has been used at formal and informal gatherings across campus:

We would like to acknowledge that the land we are meeting on today is the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary homeland of many Indigenous nations, most recently the Anishinabek (including Potawatomi, Chippewa/Ojibwe, and Odawa) tribal nations.

We acknowledge the painful history of genocide, forced relocation, and removal of many from this territory, and we honor and respect the many Indigenous people, including those of the Three Fires Alliance, who are still connected to this land on which we gather.