As a resource for the Marxe Community, our committee offers two versions of a Land Acknowledgment that vary in length. Please feel free to use these statements in your syllabi, emails, or events.
The Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College in the City University of New York exists on the ancestral homeland and dispossessed territory of the Munsee Lenape people. As a school dedicated to genuine engagement in community issues, the Marxe School acknowledges the history, presence, dispossession, forced migration, colonization, oppression, attempted genocide, and thriving survival of the Lenape people. We are obligated to know the histories of these lands that allow our school to thrive, and to strive towards new ways of engaging, knowing, and pursuing justice and the dismantling of settler colonialism.