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Berea College

As faculty, staff, students, and stakeholders affiliated with the bell hooks center at Berea College, we acknowledge that the College and our center are located on the ancestral homelands of the ᏣᎳᎫᏪᏘᏱ/Tsalaguwetiyi/Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the ᏣᎳᎩᎠᏍᏕᎵᏍᎩ/Cherokee Nation, the Shawandasse Tula/Shawanwaki/Shawnee Tribe, and the S’atsoyaha/Yuchi. We recognize that their material and spiritual relationships with these lands and waterways precede ours, and that their survivance has persisted amidst continued removal. The violent erasure of their languages and stories rewrites the narratives that we tell ourselves to keep these lands and waterways conveniently open to settler use and enjoyment, and this only serves to perpetuate the oppression of Indigenous peoples and communities.
Following bell hooks’s demand for a “feminist movement” that is “fundamentally anti-racist,” our programming aims to disrupt settler fantasies about Indigenous removal by supporting Indigenous artists, activists, and scholars, offering them a platform for their radical interventions, and compensating them equitably for their time and expertise.
We invite you to trouble settler systems of domination with us and to hold us accountable. The work of decolonization is a communal one.

Land Acknowledgment Statement 

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