Native Land Acknowledgement

The Ohio Ornithological Society would like to acknowledge that we gather and go birding on the traditional land of at least six tribes of native peoples, past and present, and honor with gratitude those who have stewarded it over the years. We acknowledge the forced removal of indigenous peoples from the state of Ohio, and the painful history of genocide. Various cessions in the state, including the Treaty of Greenville, allowed European colonizers to claim the land for farmland, forcing indigenous peoples to move west as their land was stolen from them, or they were declared by the government as no longer being Indian and assimilated into colonized society. The OOS recognizes the continual displacement of Native people by the United States and we are committed to dismantling the ongoing implications of this colonial legacy within our state and beyond.