This is another post in our ongoing blog series that acknowledges the ancestral lands on which the National Archives’ buildings are situated across the country. This series of acknowledgements is a simple way to offer recognition and respect to the people who once lived on these lands. When completed in 2012, the combined National Archives … Continue reading The Importance of Acknowledging Our History: The National Archives and Federal Records Center in Denver, Colorado
This is another installment of our ongoing blog series that acknowledges the ancestral lands on which the National Archives’ buildings are situated. This series of acknowledgements is a simple way to offer recognition and respect to the people who once lived on these lands. The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum is located in Atlanta, … Continue reading The Importance of Acknowledging Our History: NARA’s Facilities in the Atlanta Area
This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts that acknowledges the ancestral lands on which the National Archives’ buildings are situated. This series of acknowledgements is a simple way to offer recognition and respect to the people who once lived on these lands. Photo of the Eisenhower Presidential Library, U.S. National Archives. The … Continue reading The Importance of Acknowledging our History: The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home
This is another post from our ongoing series of blog posts that acknowledges the ancestral lands on which the National Archives’ buildings are situated. I started this series of acknowledgements as a simple way to offer recognition and respect to the people who lived on these lands before us. Photo of the National Archives at … Continue reading The Importance of Acknowledging our History: The National Archives at Boston and the Boston Federal Records Center
This post is part of an ongoing series of blog posts that acknowledges the ancestral lands on which the National Archives’ buildings are situated. I started this series of acknowledgements as a simple way to offer recognition and respect to the people who lived on these lands before us. After all, the past is prologue. … Continue reading The Importance of Acknowledging our History: The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
This post is part of an ongoing series of blog posts that acknowledges the ancestral lands on which the National Archives’ buildings are situated. I share these land acknowledgements as a way to offer recognition and respect to the people who lived on these lands before us. Today’s post takes us to the National Archives and … Continue reading The Importance of Acknowledging our History: The National Archives in Seattle
This is the second in a series of blog posts that acknowledges the history of the land on which the National Archives’ buildings are situated. Today’s post is the National Archives building in College Park, Maryland, known by staff and local researchers as “A2.” The A2 building site contains archeological remains from prehistoric settlements during … Continue reading The Importance of Acknowledging our History: NARA at College Park, Maryland
I work at the National Archives’ flagship building in Washington, D.C., which sits on the ancestral lands of the Nacotchtank peoples. From the Native Land website map. I have begun to include this simple statement when I provide remarks at meetings, acknowledging the ancestral lands of indigenous people on which we stand. If you have … Continue reading The Importance of Acknowledging History
