Sacred Land Acknowledgement
Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, the stolen land areas of Iowa where I have been living and working, are ancestral Sauk and Meskwaki, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Dakota Sioux), Báxoje Máyaⁿ (Ioway), and Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) lands. If we lived in accordance with true justice and fairness, reparations would be made at once, and these and all other unjustly relinquished lands would be returned back to living Indigenous peoples, the rightful overseers of these sacred lands. My heartfelt gratitude for said honorable peoples, who’s many profound contributions to the world immensely enrich the human experience.