MLA Land Acknowledgment
We acknowledge that the territory on which we gather for the 2024 convention, the city now known as Philadelphia, is part of Lënapehòkink, the ancestral homelands of the Lenape people since time immemorial. We honor the Lenape tribal nations—the Delaware Nation, the Delaware Tribe of Indians, and the Stockbridge Munsee Community—whose governments now reside in different states as a result of colonial-settler violence and dispossession but who maintain ongoing relationships with their homelands. We take this opportunity to thank the original caretakers of this land.
More Resources about the Indigenous History of Philadelphia
Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation
“We Just Want to Be Welcomed Back”: The Lenape Seek a Return Home