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We want to respectfully acknowledge that we are on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Osage, Missouri, and Illini people, who have stewarded this land throughout the generations. We ask you to consider the many legacies of violence, displacement, migration, and settlement that bring us to this community today, and the ways in which we may work to care for and repair these legacies in the present.

We center land recognition as an invitation to action. Over the past four years, we helped steward a process with the Osage Nation to rematriate the entirety of Sugarloaf Mound, the last remaining intact mound and oldest man-made structure in the City of St. Louis, in accordance with the Osage Nation’s Sugarloaf Mound Preservation Plan. We remain committed to the preservation of the mound and continued land back efforts within and beyond our work.