Anne Lindyberg acknowledges that her life and work take place on the ancestral homelands of Indigenous peoples, particularly the Báxoǰe (Ioway), Meskwaki, and Sauk peoples in Iowa, as well as the many Native Nations connected with the lands now called Illinois. These lands were taken through colonization, warfare, coercive treaties, forced removal, and other forms of dispossession. She honors the sovereignty, enduring presence, and stewardship of these Nations, whose relationships with the land continue today."
I would like appropriate links listed on the page as well.
Here is a strong starter list of official tribal-government and Native-led sites. It should be described as representative rather than exhaustive, because historical Nations do not always map neatly onto one present-day federally recognized government.
Please use the University of Iowa Indigenous Land Acknowledgement and the University of Illinois Land Acknowledgement as starting references. Please also prioritize the linked websites of contemporary tribal governments and Native-led organizations. The page should acknowledge colonization, coerced treaties, forced removal, and dispossession while recognizing Indigenous peoples and sovereign Nations as living communities—not only historical occupants.
Midwest Center for Transformational Change PLC
