As aspiring allies one of the most effective practices we can engage in is to spend time and money "on the Boundary," and the Visit Cherokee website is one of the primary means by which the people of the Eastern Band invite us to learn about their history and culture,...
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The Blanket Exercise
In September of 2023, ABLA co-sponsored a visit by Paula Palmer of Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples, and participated in the presentation of the "Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change" experiential workshop, also known as "the blanket exercise." Here is a...
Where ABLA Was Conceived
Here is a link to the video of the original "Beyond Land Acknowledgement" Conference at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, where the idea for the Alliance for Beyond Land Acknowledgement was spawned. Beyond Land Acknowledgement Conference Video And here is a...
Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor
"Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor" is an essay written by scholarly researchers Eve Tuck of State University of New York at New Paltz and K. Wayne Yang of the University of California, San Diego, in which the authors describe how the metaphorical application of the...
The Doctrine of Discovery
From the time of the Crusades to the encroachment of European colonizers in Africa and the "New World" during the 15th Century, the Catholic Church published a series of pronouncements, or "bulls," codifying the right of Catholic monarchs to invade, subdue, and...
Ten Steps To Building Right Relations
In her poem "Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question," Lac Court Oreilles Anishinaabe poet Diane Burns describes all the wrong ways for a person of European descent to relate to a Native person. Fortunately there are many opportunities to learn the right way to go...
Bibliography
Here you will find a list of books, periodicals, films, videos . . . all of the resources we know of that pertain to our work educating the public about the history of colonization, genocide, resource extraction, and assimilation of the original inhabitants of these...
Links
This page contains important links to connect you to media of, by, or for Native Peoples, webpages for allies and prospective allies to gather, learn, and share, and webpages about the history of colonization and the ultimate goals and processes of...
As Long As the Grass Shall Grow: How Buncombe County Was Appropriated From the Cherokee People
Drew Reisinger, Buncombe County's Registrar of Deeds, created this amazing storyboard to tell the history of European incursion and appropriation of the ancestral lands of the Anigituwagi, out of which arose the geopolitical entity we now know as Buncombe County....
Land Acknowledgements
Why does the Alliance for Beyond Land Acknowledgement encourage organizations, businesses, and individuals to acknowledge the people whose land we occupy? What do we mean by "Beyond Land Acknowledgement?" Here are some answers to these questions, and a collection of...