I told the man who facilitated the Indigenous Peoples Day event that I would send the text that we use in Ron Garrow's men's group:
We give thanks for the beautiful and bountiful land on which we live, the unceded ancestral lands of the Onondowaga, the Seneca, and acknowledge that it was taken by force and deceit from the indigenous inhabitants though genocide, ethnocide, linguicide, displacement, and broken treaties. We are especially blessed because the Onondowaga are part of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an unusual example of the rejection of endless division and tribal conflict as six nations came together under the Law of Peace. We do this to help us keep in mind the abundant privileges we enjoy by living here and consider the possibilities for combating the ongoing invisibility and erasure faced by indigenous people and supporting them through allyship, recognition, endorsing truth and reconciliation efforts, as well as community and material support
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