Honoring Traditional Indigenous Territories

I want to take this moment to pause and acknowledge that nearly everywhere we go, we travel through and live in traditional Indigenous territories—ancestral lands that Indigenous peoples have never ceded.  All while they’ve attempted to protect Mother Earth.  Stewards of these lands since time immemorial, I honor their traditional Indigenous cultures, sacred ways, sovereignty, right to jurisdiction, and languages—all of which should be seen and heard first. They have experienced ongoing trauma from systemic racism; assaults of disinformation and misinformation; attempts to separate them from their land, their culture, and from one another; a disproportionate rate of assaulted, missing, and murdered Indigenous females; all the injustices, all the violence.  I support truth and reconciliation calls to action.