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INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

As a Jewish Organization, we recognize how Jewish people have also suffered from land and cultural displacement. However, we acknowledge the ways in which we, as non-indigenous people on this land, have benefited from colonialism—former and ongoing—which has hurt and oppressed First Nations peoples.

The Tucson J acknowledges that we are on the traditional land of the first people of Arizona, the Hohokam people past and the O’odham people past and future. The Tucson J condemns the genocide and silencing of Indigenous peoples and holds gratitude for the Tohono O’odham Nation land on which we dwell.

Hinei moo’chan oom’zooman moo’chanah oom’zmanit l’kayem mitzvot ha’keret reh’bownoot ha’aretz le’shem yeh’chood.

Here we are, ready and prepared to acknowledge the sovereignty of the land as we are commanded for the sake of unification.