Members of the ELHS Social Justice Club have been connecting with admin in order to get acknowledgement for the Indigenous land the school is on. East Lansing occupies the land of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. The high school resides on ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. Throughout the last two to three years, the club has been pushing to get an acknowledgement on the website in order to make people more aware of the Indigenous land and the history behind it.
“About a year ago, we recognized that a few of our teachers have the land acknowledgement in their email,” Chloe Vickers (12) said. “We thought that since our school is on Native land, we’d want to acknowledge that and get a sub page on our website. Our final goal is to get plaques of the acknowledgments throughout all of the schools throughout the East Lansing district.”
East Lansing’s Instructional Design Specialist, Ms. Kali Stevens, worked with the Social Justice Club in order to help get this story published on the website…