Sassafras leadership acknowledges and offers our sincere condolences for the following:

 

Keep in mind we are 51% Indigenous Wampanoag owned and operated

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• The destruction and plunder of Indigenous peoples and their communities the world over;

• The murder and plunder of Native peoples of this continent;

• The taking of Native and Indigenous territories and the betrayal of treaties;

• The historic and ongoing separation of Native families and the removal of Native children;

• The destruction, plunder, and acts of the enslavement of peoples of the African continent;

• The fact that the US is built on the labor of enslaved people under inhumane conditions;

• The ongoing destruction and oppression of Native and Indigenous communities, and communities of Color;

• The ongoing destruction, oppression, poverty, and conflict resulting from colonialism the world over;

• The psychological harm caused by colonization through historic, ongoing and chronic trauma;

• The roots, subsistence, and evil caused by racism, a mental illness;

• The ongoing destruction and occupation of Native and Indigenous land and waters;

• The taking of Native teachings in the form of cultural appropriation without acknowledgment and reciprocity; 

• Our Mother Earth's environmental destruction, pollution, habitat and species loss;

• The impact humans have beyond earth and on all things unseen.

• ​Sassafras acknowledges the Aquinnah Wampanoag Territory and its People.

• We acknowledge that we operate on ancestral Wampanoag land.

• We acknowledge 1000's of years of Nature Connection Mentoring.

• We must give back to restore balance with all People, all Beings, and our mother the Earth.

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For more information on land acknowledgment: https://usdac.us/nativeland