Welcome to the next activity of our Land Acknowledgement project, a six-week journey ending on Thursday April 24th at the Native Crossroads festival.

This is an opportunity for the Hampshire community to reflect on and engage with questions of Indigenous rights, land ownership, white supremacy and social responsibility.

This week, we invite you to read the new segment of the Land Acknowledgement:

“The original peoples of this land have had connections with these lands for millennia and maintain and reclaim relationships to this day. They are part of a vast expanse of Algonquian relations. Over 400 years of colonization, Nipmuc (NIP-MUK), Nonotuck (NON-NO-TUCK) and Pocumtuc (POH-CUM-TUCK) Peoples were forcibly displaced. In the 17th century the Nonotuck (NON-NO-TUCK) peoples responded to ongoing settler colonial violence by seeking safety with their kinship connections in surrounding areas. In particular, the Pocumtuc (POH-CUM-TUCK) aid was vital to the survival of Nonotuck (NON-NO-TUCK) families. Many others joined their Algonquian (AL-GON-QUIN)  relatives to the east, south, west and north. We acknowledge our neighboring Indigenous nations: the Wampanoag (WAHM-PUH-NOG) to the east, the Mohegan (MO-HE-GAN), Pequot (PEA-KWAHT), and Schaghticoke (SKAT-UH-COKE) to the south, the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican (MO-HE-KN) to the west, and the Abenaki (A-BUH-NAA-KEE) to the north.”

Find our donation spots in the Kern, FPH, Dakin Living room, Library, and Mixed Nuts. We accept any kind of items, incluiding new underwear, socks, hoodies, sweats, t-shirts, hygiene items, shelf food, camping items, etc. We will give donate to the Amherst Survival Center and other local organizations.

Learn more about the work we are doing here!

If you would like to get involved in this project, feel free to email us mbp23@hampshire.edu or mld21@hampshire.edu