Land Acknowledgment

On behalf of the Caribbean Equality Project, we wish to acknowledge the land we are situated on, which includes but is not limited to, sites we now call New York City, Toronto, Guyana, Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago (among others). For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, the Mississaugas of the Credit River, the Lenape, Rockaway, and Canarsie communities, as well as the Kalinago, Taino, Lokono, Akawaio, Arecuna, Macusi, Warrau, Wapisiana, Wai Wai, Patamona, and Kalina peoples.

Since time immemorial, these Indigenous communities have lived on these lands and survived genocide and forced relocation by imperial powers. The Caribbean Equality Project acknowledges that it was founded upon the death, exclusion, and erasure of many Indigenous peoples, including those on whose land we occupy and organize on, respectively. This acknowledgment demonstrates a commitment to beginning the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism.

As we are positioned in a time of ongoing pandemics and precarity, and largely continue to gather as non-Indigenous and settler communities, it is essential to be reminded of our commitment to solidarity, coalition, and decolonization efforts in support of Indigenous communities across Turtle Island [now also called North America].

Written by Ryan Persadie and Mohamed Q. Amin

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