11/01/2024
November is Native American Heritage Month! Learn more at https://www.nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/ or https://www.facebook.com/groups/chicagoaicc/.
Not sure whose native land you live on? Visit https://native-land.ca/ for an interactive map.
Our Land Acknowledgement:
Columbia College Chicago occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg—Three Fires Confederacy of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, as well as the as well as the Miami, Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Sac and Fox nations. Today, we are connecting online via a vast array of servers and computer devices. In the United States, much of this infrastructure sits on stolen land acquired under the extractive logic of white settler expansion. As an organization, we recognize this history and uplift the sovereignty of Indigenous people, data, and territory. We also commit to dismantling ongoing settler-colonial practices and their material implications on our digital worlds. By offering this Land Acknowledgment, we reaffirm our College’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Mission statement and will hold Columbia College Chicago more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.
