Slow Food Vermont Land Acknowledgment
We begin Slow Food Vermont meetings with a land acknowledgment recognizing the Abenaki Nation. Find the full text and resources below.
Slow Food Vermont Land Acknowledgment
I want to start this meeting by acknowledging that we are gathered here and holding this meeting and events relating to Slow Food on the unceded traditional lands of the Abenaki Nation, a tribe of the Wabanaki Confederacy that includes Elnu Abenaki in Southern Vermont, the Nulhegan-Memphramagog Band of the Coosuk in the Northeast Kingdom, Abenaki Missisquoi of Swanton, and the Koasek Abenaki of the Ndakinna territory of Vermont. I ask you to join me in acknowledging the Abenaki community, their elders both past and present, as well as future generations. Slow Food Vermont also acknowledges that it was founded upon exclusions and erasures of many Indigenous peoples, including those on whose land we do the work of Slow Food. This acknowledgement demonstrates a commitment to beginning the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism here in Vermont - the place the Abenaki Nation calls the Dawnland. Thank you.
RESOURCES:
Reclaiming Native Truth, a resource for allies
IllumiNatives: https://illuminatives.org/
Elnu Abenaki: http://elnuabenakitribe.org/
Nulhegan-Memphramagog of the Coosuk Abenaki: https://abenakitribe.org/
Abenaki Missisquoi: https://www.abenakination.com/
Koasek and Koasek of the Koas Abenaki” http://koasekofthekoas.org/, https://koasek-abenaki.com/