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Parent and Community Engagement Committee

November 10th, 2022

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Land Acknowledgement

We recognize the unique and enduring relationship that exists between Indigenous People and their traditional territories. We acknowledge that we are on the unceded stolen homeland of the Sugaree Tribe within the original territory of the Catawba Nation.

Let this acknowledgement serve as a reminder of our ongoing efforts to recognize and honor the Sugaree people whose lands and water we benefit from today.

Visit https://native-land.ca/ to identify the native land of where you live, work, and play.

Read about the complexity of a Land Acknowledgement here.

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The Real Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Month

Podcast

Myths and Resources

How to Learn More

Watch a Wampanoag retelling of Thanksgiving

CMS Focus and Resources

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Shift Our Thinking

Not a dead culture, not a costume or a mascot. Real people. There are more than 565 federally-recognized tribes and hundreds of unrecognized tribes. Each tribe has their own culture, customs, traditional clothing, dwellings, and rituals.
Do not erase. It is fine to focus Thanksgiving on gratitude, AND acknowledge the erasure and colonization. Tell the stories. For many indigenous peoples, everyday is Thanksgiving. Gratitude is a daily spiritual practice. The 4^th Thursday in November is a Day of Mourning (established in 1970)
Do research. There is no monolith Indigenous opinion, multiple sources creates a whole picture.
“America’s First People” is a colonialist term. Indigenous tribes were here before America, not the other way around.