As a system of universities in Wisconsin we share stewardship of the land and water between the Michigami, the full system of Great Lakes, and Michiziibi, the great Mississippi River, with the current sovereign nations of Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Ojibwe, Oneida and Mohican people along with the ancestors before them. Together we commit to being connected to this space, increasing our knowledge of it and transmitting that knowledge to future generations.
This land acknowledgement statement was written for UW System’s Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin by Professor Margaret Noodin, Director of the Electa Quinney Institute and a Center for Water Policy scholar at UW-Milwaukee.
