LAND AND PEOPLES ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The pieces in this collection are from scholars and activists across North America. The work in this special issue took place on the traditional and sovereign homelands and peoples of the Potawatomi, Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Odawa, Ojibwe, Sac and Fox, and Mascouten; Miami, Inoka, Menominee, Sac, and Fox; Waco, Keechi, and Tawakoni; Muscogee (Creek) Nation; Ioway Tribe of Oklahoma; Algonquian, Iroquois, and Sioux; Narragansett, and Wampanoag; Mashpee Wampanoag, Aquinnah Wampanoag, and Nipmuc; Canarsie; Pennacook. The curators, writers, and artists of this special issue pay our respects to those, both past and present, who have stewarded these lands throughout the generations. We are collectively grateful for the opportunity to live, work, and share ideas on these lands.
In addition, we would also like to acknowledge pieces that share with us sacred stories and marginalized ways of knowing, specifically those offered here by the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, DiaspoRican community, and Black community of Kansas City, Missouri.