Future Research
In the middle of our project’s development, we came across a contact, Dr. Gordon Ambrosino, who stressed the importance of starting land acknowledgement at the local level first. Unfortunately, it was too late for us to switch over from our existing framework of the Morrill Act. Our land acknowledgement project centered around the indigenous lands out west that were stolen and sold by the government in order to generate the land-grant funds for Auburn University. But the land that Auburn University sits on now is still relatively unacknowledged throughout the project. The next step in furthering this work and our research is to focus on the local land history and the relationships we have with the Alabama-based tribes. We have created this document to act as an aid for future research groups when getting started.
It is our hope that future group members will be able to get more done in their first few weeks of the semester if they have this preliminary information from the get-go.
This document features:
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Alabama state-recognized tribes' contact information & map
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Hyperlinked web articles/resources and quick explanations of the information
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Information for existing project contacts- those who helped with this original project
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Information for potential project contacts - people and organizations who we feel could help with local land acknowledgement
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10 tips from Fall 2021 members + our contact information
