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Land Acknowledgement
Although the Museum Association of New York travels and host programs across New York State, we offer a land acknowledgement here for our main offices located in Troy, NY.
It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking, and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the Indigenous peoples of this land. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.
This land acknowledgement has been reviewed and approved by the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.
Resources on Land Acknowledgements
We've gathered a few helpful resources as a starting point for writing a land acknowledgement.
Native Land –a great resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life.
Beyond Land Acknowledgment: A Guide, from Native Governance Center –critical next steps to take beyond writing a land acknowledgment
Honor Native Land: A Guide and Call to Acknowledgment –from the US Department of Arts and Culture
What are land acknowledgements and why do they matter? –Indigenous writer Selena Mills shares the importance of land acknowledgements and shares perspectives about this new, popular form of reconciliation
Cornell University's Land Acknowledgement
Land Acknowledgement: You're On California Indian Land, Now What? Toolkit
How to Make a Land Acknowledgement from the Duwamish Tribe
We will continue to update this resource list. Have a resource to share? Please email us at info@nysmuseums.org