Bridger-Teton Together

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Bridger-Teton National Forest is the ancestral homelands and migratory territories of the Eastern Shoshone, Shoshone-Bannock, Crow, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Gros Ventre and Lakota people, and many other Tribal Nations. Public lands are Native lands and acknowledging the history of a landscape is the first step in a commitment to work against the system of oppression that dispossessed Indigenous people of their lands and denied their rights to self determination. Bridger-Teton Together respects Native people’s historic, present, and future presence on the Bridger-Teton and across the country, as well as their inherent sovereignty and self-determination. We honor treaty rights, including reserved rights that exist off a reservation. Far too often Native people are discussed as relics of the past, rather than vital members of living cultures with the ability to offer keystone perspectives and wisdom regarding a path forward. We value the Indigenous commitment to land stewardship that kept these forest lands healthy for generations and acknowledge that the public lands of today were far from vacant of a human presence before the Anglo-American arrival. We strive to support actions that respect the legal rights, priorities, traditional knowledge, interests, and concerns of Native American and Indigenous peoples to ensure a more just and equitable future.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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