North State Parent Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that North State Parent Magazine headquarters is situated on, and the magazine is distributed throughout, territory occupied by many Native tribes. This land has been stewarded by Indigenous people since time immemorial.

We recognize that Native communities were forcibly removed from the land where we now reside.

We respectfully honor and acknowledge all Indigenous communities throughout the five North State Counties we serve (Butte, Siskiyou, Shasta, Tehama and Glenn) throughout time and into the future. We are grateful for their presence, their knowledge, their ways of life and their respect for the land and ecosystems. We offer gratitude for the land and for those who have cared for it throughout generations. We are grateful for the opportunity to grow, learn, work and create community on this land.

We acknowledge the critical importance of the land and water to the Indigenous peoples of California today, and that the existence of tribal communities and preservation of traditional Indigenous ways of life depend on secure and permanent land bases and the right of self-determination.

We ask our readers to join us as allies to the First Peoples who inhabited this land before us by clicking on the links in this section to learn about the tribes in the county in which you live and work and what kind of help they need today.