Housing in Action
Stolen Land
& Labor
We acknowledge that we live our lives and do our work on land that European colonizers stole from the Dakota peoples indigenous to Minnesota. In order for this theft to occur, sadistic acts of genocide, rape, and forced assimilation were employed.
We also acknowledge that we live our lives and do our work on land that was cultivated and developed by bodies that European colonizers stole from West African countries through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. In order for these thefts to occur, sadistic acts of genocide, rape, and forced assimilation were employed.
We acknowledge what was taken from our collective human ancestors. As we do so, we commit to work and fight for the liberation of the descendants of those enslaved through American Chattel Slavery and the sovereignty of all Native American peoples.
Learn More About Stolen Land
- Native Governance Center – Land Acknowledgment
- Minnesota Historical Society – The Dakota Peoples
- Marlena Myles – Dakota Land Maps
- Treaties Matter – Dakota & Ojibwe Treaties
- Dakota Wicohan – Dakota Place Names
- MPR News – The white government pressured tribes for land
- Resource Generation – Land Reparations & Indigenous Solidarity Toolkit
Learn More About Stolen Labor
- Equal Justice Initiative – The Transatlantic Slave Trade
- NEH – Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
- Smithsonian – Perspective: The Other Slavery
- IAPHS – 400 Years of Chains: The Over-policing of Black Bodies and the Devaluing of Black Pain
- Brookings – Why we need reparations for Black Americans
- ACLU – Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers
- The Exodus Road – Forced Labor in the US
