{"id":295,"date":"2025-07-18T03:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/driftsedgeconservancy.org\/?page_id=295"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:50:42","slug":"land-acknowledgement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/driftsedgeconservancy.org\/?page_id=295","title":{"rendered":"Land Acknowledgement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">We wish to acknowledge the land occupied by Drift\u2019s Edge Nature Conservancy.&nbsp; For thousands of years, this area has been the ancestral land of the Ho-Chunk nation.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; The state and federal government have committed violent acts of colonization against the Ho-Chunk nation including warfare, army intervention, and ethnic cleansing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<br style=\"height: 2px\">\n<br style=\"height: 2px\">\n<hr style=\"height: 3px; background-color: #5E7C49; border: none; width: 75%\">\n<br style=\"height: 0.5px\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ho-chunknation.com\/\">Ho-Chunk Nation website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpm.edu\/content\/wirp\/ICW-52\">Milwaukee Public Museum:&nbsp; Ho-Chunk History<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compliance.wisc.edu\/land-acknowledgement\/\">University of Wisconsin-Madison land acknowledgement<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wish to acknowledge the land occupied by Drift\u2019s Edge Nature Conservancy.&nbsp; For thousands of years, this area has been the ancestral land of the Ho-Chunk nation.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-295","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftsedgeconservancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftsedgeconservancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftsedgeconservancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftsedgeconservancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftsedgeconservancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/driftsedgeconservancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/driftsedgeconservancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftsedgeconservancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}