LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Do you know, or have you ever thought about the historIES of land that hold your weight?
Land acknowledgements have become quite common as a way to recognize Indigenous presence, histories, and displaced sovereignty. However, these land acknowledgements can easily become token gestures rather than meaningful practices and political shifts. It is our intention in acknowledging the traditional and unceded territories the Hosts, Guides, and Accelerator participants reside on that we collectively intend to create real changes in consciousness, power, and rights with Indigenous lands from here forward.
Take some seconds to notice how you can be land. Open space for different creatures and multiple universes inside you. Your skin, bones, flesh, the food being digested inside of you, all of you is made up of and sustained by the land. Make room for new forms of co-existence to encounter you. Collectivize your heart so that it breaks open and not apart.