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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
According to Hidden History of Colonial Greenwich by Missy Wolfe, the founding purchase of Greenwich was natively named Petuckquapock or Betuckquapock. The "ock" and "aug" endings are waterway descriptors. The Weichquaesgeck lived in Westchester County and southwestern Connecticut. They spoke Munsee, the nothermost dialect of the eastern Algonkian language called Delaware.
The land on which we live and work, now referred to as Connecticut, is the unceded territory of the Sequin including Quinnipiac and Tunxis, Matabesec, Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Nipmuc, and Lenape Peoples, who have and continue, to steward these lands throughout the generations.
We acknowledge that the place commonly referred to as “New England” is located on the occupied and/or unceded traditional lands and waters of Indigenous Peoples, and that we have a responsibility to help make that truth visible and to support efforts toward indigenous sovereignty and well-being. This acknowledgement is a first step in recognizing the harm done and moving toward solidarity with Native People.
Sited Connecticut’s Indigenous People’s by Lucianne Lavin Stone mortar from Somers, CT and pestle from Wethersfield, CT
TFN credits the language for this land acknowledgment to CT Farm to School Collaborative and Food Solutions New England.