Land Acknowledgement

Chuco Town Roller Derby is a BIPOC friendly league (Black, Indigenous, People Of Color). As a part of our Commitment to Community & Culture, we'd like to say thank you to the UTEP College of Liberal Arts (University of Texas El Paso) for writing the following land Acknowledgement as we could not have written it better ourselves.

"As members of the...community, we acknowledge that we are meeting on unceded Indigenous land. We would like to recognize and pay our respects to the Indigenous people with long ties to the immediate region:

Lipan Apache, Mescalero Apache, Piro, Manso, Suma, Jumano, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, Piro/Manso/Tiwa Indian Tribe of the Pueblo of San Juan de Guadalupe, and Tortugas Pueblo.

We also acknowledge the nations whose territories include present day Texas:

the Carrizo & Comecrudo, Coahuiltecan, Caddo, Tonkawa, Comanche, Alabama-Coushatta, Kickapoo, and the peoples of Chihuahua and northern Mexico from whom most/many of our students descend, such as the Rarámuri, Tepehuan, Wixarrika and Nahuatlaca peoples.

Finally, we recognize all of the American Indian and Indigenous Peoples and communities who have been or have become a part of these lands and territories here in Paso del Norte, on Turtle Island. The University of Texas at El Paso honors your history and cultures and we seek greater awareness of the myriad ways in which your legacy can guide us in fruitful partnerships and mutually fulfilling or have become a part of these lands and territories here."

- University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

College of Liberal Arts