Reading Envy Readers discussion

As we read these regional poems together, I think the question raises naturally - whose lands do you live on now, if you currently live in the United States or Canada? (Feel free to answer if you live elsewhere, of course.)

Here is a map where you can plug in your address. Since I live on the same area as my workplace, and they did a formal land acknowledgment with participation from the Eastern Band of Cherokees, I will just link to that story. Very recent, fall of 2019. I was at the first public event where a land acknowledgment was read!

Where I grew up, in the north tip of the Willamette Valley in Oregon (now also the north tip of wine country), it was the home of the Atfalati, also known as the Tualatin or Wapato Lake Indians, a tribe of the Kalapuya who originally inhabited some 24 villages on the Tualatin Plains in the northwest part of the U.S. state of Oregon. They ceded lands in 1851 (unratified) and 1855 (ratified,) this time moving to the Grand Ronde Community, which pulled in many indigenous groups and is now home to the "casino on the way to the beach" as most of us Oregonians know it.

Atakapa Ishak - they called themselves the Ishak “the people.”