“These are the ancestral lands of. . . .' The phrase carries both truth and trauma that can slip past uneducated ears. Indigenous homelands on the Coastal Plain are places of deep connection and remembrance, but they are also places where horrific colonial experiences befell our ancestors. The trauma of those experiences still flows through our communities today. The pain of racial oppression and cultural loss combines with the radical transformation of our homelands, and it haunts us from generation to generation.” EducationUniversityNorth CarolinaNative AmericansIndigenous PeoplesPresentationsAmerican IndiansLumbee IndiansLand AcknowledgementsSoutheast Us Book:On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice Source: On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice
“Indigenous survival in the face of erasure speaks to our resilience, adaptability, and—when necessary—an obstinance that has survived three centuries of oppression. So the next time you read or hear in a land acknowledgment that "these are the ancestral lands of..." remember that we never left.” Us HistoryColonizationNorth CarolinaNative AmericansAmerican South Book:On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice Source: On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice