It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that MASS MoCA rests on the ancestral homelands of the Muhheaconneok or Mohican people (People of the Waters That Are Never Still) and the Wabanaki peoples.
Despite tremendous hardship in being forcibly relocated from these lands by Dutch, English and U.S. colonizers, today the the Muhheaconneok or Mohican community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee community. The Wabanaki Confederacy, also known as The People of the Dawnland, include the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Abenaki Nations, are indigenous to the lands with the English placenames Maine, Vermont, northwestern Massachusetts, and parts of Canada, and continue to reside in these areas.
We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past, present and future.