Nokomis Heights Lutheran Church (NHLC) of Minneapolis acknowledges that our place of worship occupies the contemporary and ancestral lands of the Dakota and Anishinaabe tribal nations.
We acknowledge the historic and current trauma, grief, and inequities created by our participation in the dominant cultural and religious systems that impact all aspects of human life.
We acknowledge an ongoing responsibility through our collective work and community engagement to understand and address systemic and structural racism wrought by these inequities.
We also acknowledge and apologize for the church’s complicity in perpetuating present and past inequities.
Through these acknowledgments, NHLC honors the embedded history of indigenous strength and resilience, especially the Dakota and Anishinaabe tribal nations, and we affirm the right of each person to bring their whole self and stories into this space.
Thank you to Patrice Kunesh for help with this acknowledgement.