Land Acknowledgment
MUWEKMA OHLONE ANCESTRAL LAND
We recognize that every member of the San Jose community has, and continues to benefit
from, the use and occupation of this land since the institution's founding in 1921.
Consistent with our values of community, inclusion, and diversity, we have a responsibility
to acknowledge and make visible the college's relationship to the original people.
As members of the community, it is vitally important that we recognize the history
of the land on which we stand. We also recognize that the Muwekma Ohlone people are
alive and flourishing members of the broader Bay Area.
We acknowledge that the land on which we gather at San Jose City College sits on the
unceded ancestral homeland of the Muwekma Ohlone, who are the original peoples of
the San Francisco Bay Area.
We recognize that we benefit from living, working, and learning on their traditional
homeland, and we affirm their sovereign rights as first peoples.