AskHistorians 2021 Digital Conference Chair's Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
Channel: AskHistorians
Date: 2021-10-18

Conference Chair, Lisa Baer-Tsarfati, welcomes all to the AskHistorians 2021 Digital Conference, "[Deleted] & Missing History: Reconstructing the Past, Confronting Distortions".

We on the Organizing Committee of the AskHistorians 2021 Digital Conference would like to acknowledge that the AHDC 2021 is being produced in and viewed from various locations across the world. Many of these locations include lands that are the ancestral, unceded, and treaty territories of Indigenous Peoples from Turtle Island, Abya Yala  [ab-EE-ah ee-AH-lah], and the Americas in their entirety to the traditional lands of Indigenous Peoples in Sweden, Australia, and across the globe. We acknowledge that these lands have been stewarded by these Indigenous communities and nations since time immemorial and we offer our gratitude to these Peoples. We, moreover, recognize that, five hundred years later, settler colonial nations continue to benefit from the brutal realities of genocide and forced removal that enabled the original settler colonizers and conquistadores to seize these lands.

The AHDC organizers acknowledge both the land upon which we are virtually hosting this conference, those lands from which the conference is being viewed, and the deep-rooted and long-lasting wounds caused by white imperialism and settler colonialism. The harmful effects of these actions continue to hurt Indigenous communities across the world. We recognize the responsibility we have as historians to amplify Indigenous Voices and speak for those who can no longer speak for themselves. We also acknowledge that while we pursue this goal, academia itself has often been at the forefront of colonial domination and must therefore reckon with its own injustices. Understanding this, we have chosen to make a donation to the Indigenous organization, Forest Peoples Programme, in an effort to give back to Indigenous communities around the world. While we appreciate that Indigenous political, trade, and kinship relationships extend beyond the geographic boundaries that we commonly assign to distinct communities and nations, we would like to particularly acknowledge the Indigenous Peoples upon whose ancestral lands the AHDC 2021 has been produced or hosted as follows:

Anishinabewaki (Anishinaabe) [ah-nish-i-NAA-bay]
Aonikenk [ah-OH-nee-kenk]
Atakapa-Ishak [ah-TAH-ka-pa IH-shahk]
Attiwonderonk (Attawandaron) [ad-ah-WON-da-ron]
Bodéwadmiakiwen (Potawatomi) [po-ta-WA-toh-mee]
Cheyenne [SHY-an]
Coahuiltecan [coh-ah-WEEL-teh-can]
Coast Salish [SAY-lish]
Doeg [DOGUE]
Eora [ee-OR-ah]
Gününa Küne [goo-NOO-nah KOO-neh]
Haudenosaunee [HAH-den-o-shaw-nee]
Jumano [joo-MA-no]
Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk)[ga-nyan-gey-HA-ga]
Karankawa [keh-run-ka-wa]
Kaskasia [kas-KAS-kee-ah]
Kaw Nation
Kiikappooi (Kickapoo) [KIK-ah-poo]
Manahoac [man-UH-hohk]
Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett)
Mississauga and Mississaugas of the Credit [miss-ih-SAH-ga]
Muwekma [moo-WEHK-ma]
Myaamia [mee-ah-mee-ah]
Nacotchtank (Anacostan) [nah-COSH-tahnk]
Ndé Kónitsąąíí Gokíyaa (Lipan Apache) [N’deh]
Nentego (Nanticoke) [NAN-tuh-go]
Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche) [NUH-muh-nuh]
Očhéthi Šakówiŋ [OH-chay-tee shah-KOH-ween]
Odawa [oh-DAH-wa]
Ohlone [oh-LOW-nee]
Onʌyote'a•ka (Oneida) [oh-NY-da]
𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰𐓓𐒷 𐒼𐓂𐓊𐒻 𐓆𐒻𐒿𐒷 𐓀𐒰^𐓓𐒰^(Osage) [oh-SAYJ]
Pawtucket [paw-TUCK-et]
Peoria [pee-OR-ee-ah]
Piscataway [puh-SCAT-uh-way]
Ponca [PAANG-ka]
Ramaytush [ra-MAY-toosh]
Sami [SAH-mee]
Sana [CHA-na]
sq̓ʷaliʼabš (Nisqually) [squall-ee-absh]
Susquehannock [suh-skweh-HA-nock]
Tonkawa [taang-KA-wah]
Wendake [wen-DAA-keh]
Wenrohronon [WEN-ro-ron-on]
Wôpanâak (Wampanoag) [WAHM-puh-nuh-ahk]