We wish to acknowledge the land occupied by Drift’s Edge Nature Conservancy. For thousands of years, this area has been the ancestral land of the Ho-Chunk nation. An 1832 treaty forced the Ho-Chunk nation to cede land in modern-day Southern Wisconsin (and in 1837, ultimately all of their land across Wisconsin) to the federal government. The state and federal government have committed violent acts of colonization against the Ho-Chunk nation including warfare, army intervention, and ethnic cleansing.
We acknowledge the wrongful treatment that the United States government and the State of Wisconsin inflicted upon Indigenous peoples and we honor the sovereignty of these Indigenous nations.