Guides: Land Acknowledgments: Beyond Acknowledgment

A search for Los Angeles County, CA, USA using Native Land's Territory Acknowledgment tool shows that Los Angeles County sits on Chumash, Tongva, and Kizh land.

Learn more about the Chumash, Tongva, and Kizh nations:

Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles aims to uncover and highlight the multiple layers of indigenous Los Angeles through a storymapping project with youth, community leaders, and elders from indigenous communities throughout the city.

Mapping Indigenous LA Project

Resources for Allies

Indigenous Peoples' Day Supporters' Guide
Learn more about Indigenous Peoples' Day, Pepperdine's History with Indigenous People, and the land on which Pepperdine's Malibu campus sits with this guide created by the Pepperdine Volunteer Center.
Changing the Narrative About Native Americans: A Guide for Allies
"This guide is a tool in our quest to replace false narratives — and specifically the toxic narrative about Native Americans — with the truth. It boils down two years of extensive research and testing — unprecedented in Indian Country — into actionable information you can use to make your work more effective."
Indigenous Allyship: An Overview
A toolkit for allies from the Laurier Student Public Interest Research Group.

Podcasts

Media Indigena
MEDIA INDIGENA is a weekly Indigenous current affairs podcast.
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Our website also features Aboriginal news, views and creative expression.
All My Relations Podcast
All My Relations is a podcast hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation) to explore our relationships— relationships to land, to our creatural relatives, and to one another. Each episode invites guests to delve into a different topic facing Native American peoples today.
The Henceforward
The Henceforward is a podcast that considers relationships between Indigenous Peoples and Black Peoples on Turtle Island.
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Through this podcast series, we take an open and honest look at how these relationships can go beyond what has been constructed through settler colonialism and antiblackness, we investigate what our mutual obligations and possibilities for contingent collaboration are, and much much more.

Blogs

American Indians in Children's Literature
Established in 2006 by Dr. Debbie Reese of Nambé Pueblo, American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) provides critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books. Dr. Jean Mendoza joined AICL as a co-editor in 2016.

Organizations

IllumiNative
Created and led by Native peoples, IllumiNative is a new nonprofit initiative designed to increase the visibility of – and challenge the negative narrative about – Native Nations and peoples in American society.
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
Since its public programming launched in 2010, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation has engaged in grassroots community organization and outreach to listen to and amplify the voices of the Native arts community.
U.S. Department of Arts and Culture
The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture is a people-powered department — a grassroots action network inciting creativity to shape a culture of empathy, equity, and belonging. Learn more about the USDAC and read our Statement of Values, then join this act of collective imagination!
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*The USDAC is not a government agency.
Cultural Survival
Cultural Survival works toward a future that respects and honors Indigenous Peoples' inherent rights and dynamic cultures, deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression, rooted in self determination and self-governance.

Land Acknowledgments

Resources for Allies

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