# Land Acknowledgement for a Globally Distributed Organization **URL:** https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/land-acknowledgement-for-a-globally-distributed-organization/6230 **Category:** The Plaza **Created:** [December 6, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/land-acknowledgement-for-a-globally-distributed-organization/6230 "2023-12-06T17:01:48Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/user_avatar/connect.oeglobal.org/cogdog/32/2_2.png) [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog) #### Post date: [December 6, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/land-acknowledgement-for-a-globally-distributed-organization/6230/5 "2023-12-06T18:02:49Z")
This is so valuable, Verena, thanks for this insight. As I am seeing the work is important both from an organizational statement, but also what is our own personal path. > [@verenanz](#): > > In Alaska, for example, an elder encouraged me to talk about which geographic area connects with me the most - eg mountains, water, prairies etc (for me it was mountains) and think about which of my ancestors would have also likely had the opportunity to appreciate similar geographic areas. I find this so interesting and am going to dwell on it. This was an effort I tried to get going here during the OEGlobal 23 conference (but likely got lost in the many places people were attending to) where we asked people to share what the land where they are from means to them. And then a followup, to ask what they knew of the ancestral people also made that place home > [@QOTD 5: What Did You Learn of the Ancestral People from the Land You Are From?](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/qotd-5-what-did-you-learn-of-the-ancestral-people-from-the-land-you-are-from/5878): > > Yes we are days away from the start of the OE Global Conference, and I’m still at stirring up some [questions of the day to open up conversations](https://connect.oeglobal.org/tag/qotd). Don’t worry, the questions will braid their way (!) to open education. [Question of the Day 2 asked you to share about the land you are from](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/oe-global-2023-qotd-2-the-land-where-we-are-from/5832)– how the landforms, environment, climate, setting of the place you were born may have shaped or influenced you. There is still time to reply! Now today’s question about what you know or perhaps were taught about… That was interesting as I have no recollection of even being taught anything about the Eastern US location I grew up in, and I went down my usual internet exploration holes of discovery but also connected to story of my neighborhood that I wish now I had explored more. Oh, I did come across [a UBC resource on Video Resources for Virtual Land Acknowledgements](https://wiki.ubc.ca/Documentation:CTLT_Indigenous_Initiatives_Online_Land_Acknowledgement_Resource) --- _[View the full topic](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/land-acknowledgement-for-a-globally-distributed-organization/6230)._