Land Acknowledgment

It is with gratitude, humility, and great care that we acknowledge that CARE SYLLABUS’ hosting institutions — MASS MoCA and MCLA — rest on the ancestral homelands of the Wabanaki Confederacy and the Mohican people. The Wabanaki Confederacy — a confederacy of the Micmac, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Abenaki Nations — also known as “the people of the Dawnland,” were Indigenous to the lands of contemporary Maine, Vermont, northwestern Massachusetts, and parts of Canada, and continue to reside in these areas. The Muhheaconneok or Mohican people (“people of the waters that are never still”), despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today reside in Wisconsin and are known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We take care to honor and respect their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.