Indigenous Land Acknowledgement of the NY Upstate Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects

An Indigenous Land Acknowledgement is a statement that recognizes the Indigenous peoples who have been dispossessed from the homelands and territories upon which an institution was built or an activity is taking place. NY Upstate ASLA developed the following statement with input from the Seneca Nation.

The NY Upstate Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects acknowledges that we live and work on the traditional land of the Haudenosaunee (ho-dee-no-SHOW-nee) past and present, the Shinnecock Nation, the Unkechaug Nation, the Stockbridge-Munsee, the Lenni Lenape, and others no longer living in the region. Indigenous peoples do not believe that the land and waters belong to them, but that they belong to the land and waters.  With this Land Acknowledgement, we honor, with gratitude, these communities and, through their example, we commit ourselves to honoring the earth and all of her gifts.