Land Acknowledgements

If you would like to learn more about the purpose of land acknowledgements or request a Land Acknowledgement consult for your organization please call or text EGG chair Kathleen directly at 331-276-3433

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EGG-Elgin Area Green Groups Land Acknowledgement

(adopted February, 2024) 

We acknowledge with great humility that EGG, Elgin Area Green Groups organization, is gathering here on the traditional homelands of all indigenous peoples who have ever resided on this land. 

Forced removal and violence, including the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis and the 1829 Treaty of Prairie du Chien, made way for European settlements, which eventually included the land where Elgin and our surrounding communities occupy. 

Native peoples have survived attempts to erase their culture, language, and heritage but continue to thrive on this land. 

Elgin Area Green Groups commits to sharing this history and promises to help cultivate a bright future for Native peoples through EGG’s community outreach and beyond. 

Let this statement acknowledge we are Nature and allow us to open our ears and sincerely listen to the voices of Native American peoples who been Earth’s original guardians and have traditionally held Earth in the most sacred regard. 

Let this be the beginning of a continuing, deep, and respectful relationship between EGG and all Native peoples.

As we acknowledge all Native Peoples as the original stewards of this land, we also acknowledge we are Nature. We continue to practice listening, being in reciprocity with and protection of Earth, our precious conscious and sentient home. 

–Written by Kathleen Brigidina, EGG Chair and formally approved by Joseph Standing Bear Schranz – Enrolled Member of the White Earth Band Minnesota Ojibwe Nation and President of Midwest SOARRING (Save Our Ancestors Remains & Resources Indigenous Network Group) Foundation which was formed in November of 1996.