Textile Center Land Acknowledgment

Textile Center is in the process of crafting a land acknowledgment statement and determining how best to honor the Indigenous peoples — past, present, and future — who held or continue to hold sovereignty over, inhabited and continue to inhabit, hold sacred, and steward the lands upon which Textile Center operates.

RESOURCES:

Some of the resources we have consulted include:

• Honor Native Land Guide from the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture: https://usdac.us/nativeland
• Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian: https://americanindian.si.edu/
• “So you began your event with an Indigenous land acknowledgment. Now what?” by Chloe Veltman, March 15, 2023, All Things Considered, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/15/1160204144/indigenous-land-acknowledgments
• U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs: https://www.bia.gov/

We welcome community feedback on the statement and/or programs you would like to see Textile Center implement as part of this process. We invite you to share your perspectives with us using this form: