Wherever we meet in the Americas, we meet on Native land.Here in Jamestown we meet on the homelands of the Yanktonai nation and the Očeti Šakówiŋ confederacy of which they were a part (sometimes known as the Great Sioux Nation), many of whose descendants are still members of the sovereign Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Nation, Spirit Lake Nation, and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe; on the traditional homelands of the Nu’eta (sometimes known as Mandan), Hidatsa, and Arikara peoples, many of whose descendants are still members of the sovereign nation of the same name at Fort Berthold Reservation; and on the unceded homelands of the Chippewa Ojibwa peoples of the Anishinaabe nations, many of whose descendants are still members of the sovereign Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.
