Land Acknowledgement Statement
We acknowledge that we occupy the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone (pronounced Rah-my-toosh O-lone-ee) Peoples, the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. The area now known as San Francisco was originally inhabited by the Yelamu (pronounced ye-LA-moo), an independent tribe of the Ramaytush Ohlone Peoples.
The Ramaytush Ohlone have maintained deep relationships with this land for millennia, guided by an understanding of the interconnectedness of all living beings and a responsibility to care for wahrep (Mother Earth). In accordance with their traditions, they have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as caretakers of this place and for all peoples who live within their traditional territory.
We acknowledge that the Ramaytush Ohlone have survived the brutalities of colonialism, including enslavement, genocide, dispossession, forced assimilation, discrimination, racism, gender-based violence, theft, and systemic erasure driven by local, state, and federal governments. We acknowledge that the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples are not a mythical population of the past but an integral and active community in the present San Francisco Bay Area region and beyond, whose ongoing exclusion and invisibility continue to cause harm.
As uninvited guests on Ramaytush Ohlone land, we recognize that we benefit from living and working here. We affirm their sovereign rights as First Peoples and pay our respects to the Ancestors, Elders, and Relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community. To truly honor them, we commit to accountability, through learning, relationship, and action, in how we care for our school, our children, and this land.
The Ramaytush Ohlone have maintained deep relationships with this land for millennia, guided by an understanding of the interconnectedness of all living beings and a responsibility to care for wahrep (Mother Earth). In accordance with their traditions, they have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as caretakers of this place and for all peoples who live within their traditional territory.
We acknowledge that the Ramaytush Ohlone have survived the brutalities of colonialism, including enslavement, genocide, dispossession, forced assimilation, discrimination, racism, gender-based violence, theft, and systemic erasure driven by local, state, and federal governments. We acknowledge that the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples are not a mythical population of the past but an integral and active community in the present San Francisco Bay Area region and beyond, whose ongoing exclusion and invisibility continue to cause harm.
As uninvited guests on Ramaytush Ohlone land, we recognize that we benefit from living and working here. We affirm their sovereign rights as First Peoples and pay our respects to the Ancestors, Elders, and Relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community. To truly honor them, we commit to accountability, through learning, relationship, and action, in how we care for our school, our children, and this land.