Kumeyaay Land Acknowledgement created by
Mike Connolly Miskwish (Kumeyaay)

[Original Version]

We stand upon a land that carries the footsteps of millennia of Kumeyaay people. They are a people whose traditional lifeways intertwine with a worldview of earth and sky in a community of living beings. This land is part of a relationship that has nourished, healed, protected and embraced the Kumeyaay people to the present day. It is part of a world view founded in the harmony of the cycles of the sky and balance in the forces of life. For the Kumeyaay, red and black represent the balance of those forces that provide for harmony within our bodies as well as the world around us.

We promote this balance in life as we pursue our goals of knowledge and understanding. We find inspiration in the Kumeyaay spirit to open our minds and hearts. It is the legacy of the red and black. It is the land of the Kumeyaay.

Eyay e’Hunn

My heart is good.

Native Governance Center on why Land Acknowledgment is important

• A Guide to Indigenous Land Acknowledgment

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• ECCLPS 2019 | Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Project and Summit
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• U.S. Department of Arts and Culture
  This video accompanies #HonorNativeLand—a guide and call-to-action to spread the practice of acknowledgment of traditional Native lands at the opening of all public gatherings.

Visit www.usdac.us/nativeland to download the Guide with step-by-step instructions for how to offer acknowledgement and tips for moving beyond acknowledgment into action; download #HonorNativeLand signs to print, customize, and post in your community; and take the pledge to commit publicly to practicing traditional Native land acknowledgment.

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• #HonorNativeLand Virtual Resource Pack