This workshop is run virtually as part of the Geological Society of America's 2020 conference which was scheduled to be in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
We would like to begin by acknowledging that the Conference's host city is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien'kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters on which we were to have gathered. Tiohtià:ke/Montréal is as a gathering place for many First Nations and home to a diverse population of Indigenous and other peoples. We respect the continued connections with the past, present and future in our ongoing relationships with Indigenous and other peoples within the Montreal community.
Simon Goring and Socorro Dominguez is presenting from Vancouver, British Columbia. I acknowledge that I am on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. They have cared for this land and I work to ensure that my work continues their legacy of stewardship in its own way.
Amy Myrbo is presenting from Minneapolis, Minnesota, where police took the lives of George Floyd, Philando Castile, and Wayne Reyes Sr., among many other Black and Native people. These lands are the ancestral, present, and future home of the Dakota people, who were cheated of this land and forcibly removed. Minneapolis is home to Dakotas, Anishinaabes, and many people from different Tribal Nations, and is the birthplace of AIM, the American Indian Movement. Land acknowledgments are only the first small step toward restitution, and my work strives to use my privilege to center the needs of Indigenous people in the Great Lakes region and beyond.