This is a video version of the Native Land Acknowledgment for NCSD and read by students from the North Clackamas School District. Video by Brian McGrew - NCSD In the fall of 2018, members of the North Clackamas Native Parent Advisory met with district staff and local Native Elder and writer Ed Edmo (Shoshone-Bannock) to begin crafting a Land Acknowledgement for the school district. Since the Native Parent Advisory completed the Native Land Acknowledgement, NCSD has used it to honor Native community members and to recognize the ongoing contributions Native and Indigenous peoples have in North Clackamas. The North Clackamas School District Native Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge the land on which we sit and which we call the North Clackamas School District rests on the traditional and indigenous lands and village sites of the Native peoples of the Kalapuya, Chinook, Molalla, and the Clackamas. We take this opportunity to offer gratitude for the ability to learn, work, and be a community on this land, and we offer thanks to the original caretakers of this region. We recognize the historic policies of colonization, genocide, relocation, and assimilation that affected Indigenous and Native families both past and present and that will affect those in the future, and honor the resilience and revitalization of our Indigenous and Native communities. We pay our respects to the Elders, both past and present, who have been the stewards of this land throughout the generations.