Bozho!

We respectfully recognize the Anishinabe, People of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodwéwadmi, who are Indigenous to this land, their ancestral home. We acknowledge their presence today, their histories, teachings, and traditions of tending to Gokmeskinan, our Grandmother earth.

We offer this land acknowledgment with humility, in an effort to be gracious neighbors, and good stewards of land and water. This effort includes our responsibility to learn about the history of settler colonialism and its impact on Indigenous people, and others, both then and now. Every church, mine, boarding school, plantation and bank in this country was built on land formerly inhabited by Indigenous people.

We strive to breathe more life into our obligations to care for, and to cooperate with, all communities, human and non-human, who have been, and continue to be, impacted by prejudices, oppressive practices, and unjust laws.  We do this for the love of all souls.

As neighbors and friends, we seek to realize this commitment each week in a publicly stated action.

Miigwech!

Grand Rapids Event for Murder and Missing Indigenous Peoples