Land Acknowledgment

Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice recognizes that UC Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin - Hooch-yoon), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo (Cho-Chen-yo) speaking Ohlone (Oh-low-nee)  people, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band. 

We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has, and continues to benefit from, the use and occupation of this land, since the institution’s founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community, inclusion and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university’s relationship to Native peoples. As members of the Berkeley community, it is vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the land on which we stand, but also, we recognize that the Muwekma (Muh-wek-ma) Ohlone people are alive and flourishing members of the Berkeley and broader Bay Area communities today

In recognition of this, BGLJ contributes annually to the Shuumi Land Tax—a voluntary annual financial contribution that non-Indigenous people living on traditional Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone territory make to support the critical work of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. If you too have benefitted, or continue to benefit, from the use and occupation of this land, we encourage you to do the same.

If you do not live in Berkeley, we encourage you to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land you occupy and find meaningful ways to support the Indigenous stewards of that land.

For more information, see Student Land Acknowledgement Primer