After hosting an Indigenous land acknowledgment event, we put together this written guide to based on our panelists' responses. Oakland University resides on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabe, known as the Three Fires Confederacy.A land acknowledgment is a statement before an event recognizing the Indigenous communities that originally inhabited the space where the event is taking place. At its simplest, an acknowledgment could look like this: "We acknowledge that we are on the traditional land of the ______ People." Today I would like to acknowledge the following people whose land we are on today ______. The following Land Acknowledgement language is an example provided on the Tamien Nation website (Tamien.