Moving Beyond Land Acknowledgments

https://youtu.be/NPi69NezzLk Episode Description The panelists discuss how college and universities can move beyond land acknowledgments. They provide questions for student affairs leaders to consider as more higher education institutions adopt land acknowledgements as a common practice. Episode Transcript Susana Muñoz:Hello and welcome to Student Affairs NOW. I’M your host Susana Muñoz. Today we’re talking about land acknowledgements on college campuses and how higher education institutions can perhaps move beyond these statements . I’M thrilled to be joined by three Indigenous scholars and practitioners in the field of higher education. Student Affairs NOW is the premier podcast and learning community for thousands of us who work in, alongside, or adjacent to the field of higher education and student affairs. We hope you'll find these conversations make a contribution to the field and are restorative to the profession. We release new episodes every week on Wednesdays. Find us at studentaffairsnow.com or on twitter at @stuaffairsnow! As I mentioned, I am your host Susana Muñoz. I am an Associate Professor and Program Chair in the Higher Education Leadership program at Colorado State University. My pronouns are she/her/hers/ella. I’M hosting this conversation today from Fort Collins, Colorado with respect, I want to acknowledge that the land I am standing on today is the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples Now let's get started with this conversation. We're here to discuss land acknowledgements on college campuses. Why are these statement's important, but how can institutions move beyond these statements? I have my guests here today that I'm super happy about. So please introduce yourselves and your relationship to the topic. Yes, Tiffani Kelly:Halito, Hello everyone. My name is Tiffany Kelly. My pronouns are she her and hers. I'm a citizen of the Choctaw nation of Oklahoma and I am currently working at Colorado state university. Also, I serve as the assistant director in the Native American cultural center here. And I also serve as a co-chair for the Native American advisory council to the president, which is doing is a newer advisory council, which is doing a lot of the Indigenizing Indigenous work at Colorado state where our land acknowledgement was created by Indigenous and Native faculty, staff and community members. So have been doing this work for a couple of years now. And then I also am involved with NASPA serving as a co chair of the Indigenous people's knowledge community, where we are also doing some of this work within NASPA and really having conversations about centering invisible, Indigenous and Native student affairs professionals. So I'm also just a little more about me. I'm a first generation student and I'm, multi-racial, Tiffani Kelly:I'm a sister, I'm a daughter, I'm an auntie and I'm truly excited to be here. Thank you for having me. Shelly C. Lowe:Navajo Translation: Hello my relatives and my fellow Navajos.  My name is Shelly Lowe.  I am white born for the Black Streaked Red Running into the Water clan.  My maternal grandfather is white and my paternal grandfather is Edgewater clan.  I am from Ganado.  My name is Shelly Lowe. I am a citizen of the Navajo nation. I live and work on the traditional territory of the Massachusetts tribe. I'm the executive director of the Harvard university Native American program. I'm in this position. Actually we are currently working on our kind of creating an institutional territory land acknowledgement. And it's a, it's a process.