70,640

Total meals served between 2020-2022

55

Tons of trash collected 2020-2022

175

People without homes used our mail program

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WHY IS INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT IMPORTANT?

“When we talk about land, land is part of who we are. It’s a mixture of our blood, our past, our current, and our future. We carry our ancestors in us, and they’re around us. As you all do.”
– Mary Lyons (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe)

(Native Governance Center, 2019, A GUIDE TO INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT)

This land acknowledgment seeks to be a continual work in progress, in the same way that Vallejo Together as an organization approaches its work through a lens of a growth mindset, and the humility and respect to be teachable by the communities we have the privilege of serving. We acknowledge the following people whose land we are on today: the Muwekma, Karkin, Patwin, Confederated Villages of Lisjan, and Miwok peoples, and all of their ancestors.

As guests on this land, we are obliged to transparently recognize the brutal historical and present-day impacts of colonialism. We respectfully seek to elevate the indigenous peoples while encouraging all community members to research, educate themselves about, and participate in supporting the amplification of the voices and the local history, voices, and rights of the Muwekma, Karkin, Patwin, Confederated Villages of Lisjan, and Miwok peoples.

This acknowledgment and call for community activation is the minimum starting point of the commitments Vallejo Together will examine, and further build upon, on an ongoing basis.