Land Acknowledgement

Waywords Studio acknowledges that its space and work exist on land stewarded by the Anishinabek, The Three Fires People who are the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodéwadmi, along with their neighbors the Peoria, Mississauga, Sauk, and Wyandot nations. This is land, like almost all property in the United States, which was gained, generally in unconscionable ways, particularly in the 1807 Treaty of Detroit, from indigenous peoples who continue to be unconscionably treated.

With this acknowledgment, Waywords recognizes these First Nations’ contemporary and ancestral ties to the land, and it hopes, through scholarship and pedagogy, that it can create a future in which understanding of the past supports present-day justice, balanced by care and compassion. (adapted from a statement by The University of Michigan)