Hitchcock Nature Center

“When I was in the seventh grade, I had this dream . . .”

… and I was hearing all these different people talking and they were talking in different languages, but in my dream I could understand them. I was interacting with them, talking these different languages. And then I heard this voice tell me that I was going to learn our languages. That our languages will wake up inside me and that one of my responsibilities will be to help wake up our languages, and to keep them awake within my family and our communities. I woke up and was excited because I felt a flame start building inside of me.”

~Joseph “Pomo Joe” Byron, in Project 562 by Matika Wilbur

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This place is on the traditional territory of the Báxoje Máyaⁿ (Ioway), Yankton, Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha), Jíwere–Ñút’achi Máyaⁿ (Otoe-Missouria), and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ nations. (Crowdsourced info compiled by Native-Land.ca. Please visit the nations’ websites to learn more.) We support indigenous land rights and the Land Back movement.

 

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