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First fall 2020 meeting link: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/98284046478
First fall 2020 meeting link: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/98284046478
Land Acknowledgement:
As a climate justice organization located on stolen kalapuya land we want to both acknowledge the process of colonization that has violently removed the Kalapuya people from this land as well as the governmental fuckery that has violated treaty agreements.
This community here in the Willamette Valley is part of the colonial practice world wide. There has been global environmental violence against indigenous communities for centuries. It is important to understand that the process is ongoing and localized, carried through police & prisons, policy, and societal attitudes.
We are at a crossroads: we know this history of violent indigenous removal and erasure. We have the option to act on this knowledge and be better than complacent generations before us. We must do more than simply acknowledge the fact that we live on stolen land. With this knowledge, we have a responsibility to abolish our colonial values and practices of exploitation and extraction, and shift toward ways of living and knowing that have been suppressed alongside indigenous people — ways centered around reciprocity and honor, and endless gratitude toward the land. We need to not only honor and give back to the people whose land we have stolen but also to the stolen land itself.
Robin Wall Kimmerer, a Potawatomi woman and incredible author and teacher puts it so eloquently: “We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we don’t have to avert our eyes with shame, so that we can hold our heads up high and receive the respectful acknowledgement of the rest of the earth’s beings.”
As a climate justice organization located on stolen kalapuya land we want to both acknowledge the process of colonization that has violently removed the Kalapuya people from this land as well as the governmental fuckery that has violated treaty agreements.
This community here in the Willamette Valley is part of the colonial practice world wide. There has been global environmental violence against indigenous communities for centuries. It is important to understand that the process is ongoing and localized, carried through police & prisons, policy, and societal attitudes.
We are at a crossroads: we know this history of violent indigenous removal and erasure. We have the option to act on this knowledge and be better than complacent generations before us. We must do more than simply acknowledge the fact that we live on stolen land. With this knowledge, we have a responsibility to abolish our colonial values and practices of exploitation and extraction, and shift toward ways of living and knowing that have been suppressed alongside indigenous people — ways centered around reciprocity and honor, and endless gratitude toward the land. We need to not only honor and give back to the people whose land we have stolen but also to the stolen land itself.
Robin Wall Kimmerer, a Potawatomi woman and incredible author and teacher puts it so eloquently: “We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we don’t have to avert our eyes with shame, so that we can hold our heads up high and receive the respectful acknowledgement of the rest of the earth’s beings.”
