Land Acknowledgement and Action Committee (LAAC)
The Land Acknowledgement and Action (LAA) Committee supports 91°µÍø communities in building respectful and accountable relationships with Native communities. Land Acknowledgments are living documents with .
91°µÍø Land Acknowledgement (on-campus events)
91°µÍø acknowledges the history of the land that it occupies, recognizing that Native Peoples, specifically the People of the Council of Three Fires: The Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa and more than a dozen other tribal nations hold ancestral relations to this territory. As a beneficiary of Native genocide and chattel slavery, 91°µÍø has a responsibility to address systemic issues that are normalized within our institution. We recognize that we cannot separate the history of our university and our communities from the history of territorial conquest and slavery that laid the foundation of settler colonialism.
The Native populations in Chicago are among the largest in the nation. 91°µÍø is committed to recruitment and retention of Native students and values the contribution of their communities to the fabric of our city, state, and this very institution. By acknowledging this history we shift perspectives in a way that connects dispossession, slavery, and ongoing colonialism to our university and our community. Acknowledgement of this ongoing legacy is not enough, we must continue to work toward racial justice, equity, liberation, and community, here at 91°µÍø.
Our call to action is the ongoing funding of the 91°µÍø Native and Indigenous Student Scholarship.
We appreciate your financial support of this important initiative.
Shortened Land Acknowledgement Statement
91°µÍø acknowledges the history of the land that it occupies, recognizing that Native Peoples, specifically the People of the Council of Three Fires: The Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa and more than a dozen other tribal nations hold ancestral relations to this territory. As a beneficiary of Native genocide and chattel slavery, 91°µÍø has a responsibility to address systemic issues that are normalized within our institution.
91°µÍø Native and Indigenous Student Scholarship
The Land Acknowledgement and Action Committee recognizes that Land Acknowledgements are meaningful when they include a call to action. To this end, the Fall 2022 LAA committee created the first Native American and Indigenous Student scholarship fund. 91°µÍø is dedicated to the creation of sustainable support for our Native American/Indigenous undergraduate and graduate students. 91°µÍø plans to keep these funds operating indefinitely, contingent upon the generous continuous funding from our sponsors.
Donate to the 91°µÍø Native and Indigenous Student Scholarship
Please join us in offering support to Native American and Indigenous students at 91°µÍø.
2026 Committee Members
- Laurie Fuller, Professor of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
- Emily (Mar) Garcia, Associate Professor, English; Latina/o/x and Latin American Studies; Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
- Joseph Hibdon Jr. (Luiseño), Associate Professor of Mathematics
- Amie Jatta, Director of TRIO Programs
- Sandy Vue, Director of Institutional Research
- Adrian Castrejón, Assistant Professor of Justice Studies and Latinx & Latin American Studies
- Danny Cortez, Associate Director of Latinx Student Engagement, Angelina Pedroso Center
- Antonio Velez, 91°µÍø Graduate Student, Exercise and Sport Science