Acknowledgements
Funding Acknowledgement
This project is supported by a Fund for Innovation and Excellence (FFEI) grant from the State Council for Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV). We extend our gratitude to the University of Virginia Center for Teaching Excellence for their generous funding through the SoTL Collaboration Grant.
Land Acknowledgement
This SoTL project includes higher education partners from throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. We recognize the many Nations that are traditional custodians of this expanse, including the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway), Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Mattaponi, Monacan, Nansemond, Nottoway, Pamunkey, Patawomeck, Upper Mattaponi, and Rappahannock, and other currently unrecognized tribes as the original inhabitants of Virginia. We honor their continued connection to the land.
We also recognize and honor the hundreds of thousands of enslaved people from Africa and the Americas who came before us whose labor was stolen to build the wealth of Virginia. These acknowledgements should deepen our awareness of the present effects of systemic racism and white supremacy.
We support the interrogations of these difficult histories so that we may work together for a better future.
-Adapted from the Virtual Library of Virginia land acknowledgement statement.
