History Bites- Native Land Acknowledgment: What it Means and Why it Matters

300 South Chandler Village Drive,Chandler AZ 85226

07 December, 2021

Description

This insightful talk offers a deeper context for "Greatest Photographs of the American West," an exhibition from National Geographic. Have you heard or read a Native Land Acknowledgment? Ceremonies that recognize previous caretakers of the land are traditional in many Native American communities. If you live in or around Chandler, your home, workplace, or school is built on land stewarded by the predecessors of today’s O’odham (Pima) and Piipaash (Maricopa) people. Doreen Garlid, a Navajo Nation member and the first Native American Councilmember elected in Tempe, guided the creation of that city’s Native Land Acknowledgment proclamation. Join us as she shares her deeply personal account of what acknowledgment means, whom it honors, and why it should be familiar to everyone living here now. After the program experience the exhibition “National Geographic’s Greatest Photographs of the American West,” on view at Chandler Museum until February 27, 2022.