Notes from the North End: The Land We Play On

Greg Van Belle A land acknowledgment in Lake City.If you’re reading this pretty much anywhere in the Seattle area, you’re sitting on Native land. Let’s be honest, if you’re reading this in North America, you’re sitting on what was once land Indigenous Americans called home before European settlement, warfare, and treaties forced them from their land onto reservations, a catastrophe few of us were ever fully taught, and a historical transgression that can never be made right. The slow, plodding progress being made through things like the elimination of racist mascots can not ever make up for the brutal history of colonialism. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

You may be wondering what…