My home and business are located on the traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of Indigenous people. I reside on land that was cared for and called home by the Ojibwe and Dakota people. This land holds great historical, spiritual, and personal significance for its original stewards, who were forcibly removed or killed, culturally decimated and denied citizenship by the US government until 1924.
The picture above was taken near a place called Bdote: where two waters come together. It is a sacred site for the Dakota people and a special place of healing for me. As a commitment to decolonizing my ways, I make annual rent payments to Makoce Ikikcupi, a reparative justice project focused on land recovery in Minnesota - as well as many other Indigenous-led organizations.
I encourage you to visit native-land.ca to identify the First Peoples of your area. You can learn more about land reparation efforts across the United States in this document created by John Stoesz.
The picture above was taken near a place called Bdote: where two waters come together. It is a sacred site for the Dakota people and a special place of healing for me. As a commitment to decolonizing my ways, I make annual rent payments to Makoce Ikikcupi, a reparative justice project focused on land recovery in Minnesota - as well as many other Indigenous-led organizations.
I encourage you to visit native-land.ca to identify the First Peoples of your area. You can learn more about land reparation efforts across the United States in this document created by John Stoesz.
