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Growing Number of Cities Weigh Tribal ‘Land Acknowledgements’
A tribal land acknowledgement adopted in Tempe, Arizona, recognizes that the landscape in and around the city including Papago Park in Phoenix, pictured are sacred to the O Odham and Piipaash, two tribes with long histories in the region. In Arizona and other states, some local governments are formally recognizing Native American connections to lands.
Mike Janes
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Doreen Garlid, a first-term city councilmember in Tempe, Arizona, pinched her leg under the table to keep from weeping as she read a Jan. 14 resolution into the record. The unusual resolution, popularly known as a land acknowledgement, declared that Tempe sits on traditional O Odham and Piipaash lands and celebrates the contributions the two tribes made to the region.