Cross Cultural Community Services Land Acknowledgment

Recognition

We recognize that we are on Indigenous land. In addition to the Abenaki, the broader place we now call Maine is home to the sovereign people of the Wabanaki Confederacy: the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Mi'kmaq peoples. We exist in their unceded homelands. We also acknowledge the uncomfortable truths of settler colonialism, among them that the peoples indigenous to this place were often forcibly removed from this place. Harm from the physical and cultural genocide of Native people here and throughout the land we now call Maine continues and is felt by members of the Wabanaki Confederacy who live here today. To participate in the healing process, please visit the organization Wabanaki REACH at mainewabanakireach.org. We all have work to do.