Land Acknowledgement

High Country Conservation Advocates (HCCA) acknowledges that the lands we are devoted to protecting and improving are the ancestral and native homes to the Nùu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), Pueblos, and Dinè Bikèyah people. HCCA is community driven, and wishes to recognize the communities of people that historically made these lands their hunting and gathering grounds, spiritual places of worship, homes to raise children, and all other uses significant to indigenous people.

During Euro-American colonization, the treaties were broken, forcing the Nùu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱, Pueblos, and Dinè Bikèyah people out of their ancestral lands and into reservations a fraction of the size. With little to no support or resources, many lives and traditions were lost throughout this time. In modern day conservation we will collaborate with indigenous voices to right these past wrongdoings by recognizing their history. HCCA advocates that their voices will not be lost, but rather listened to and acknowledged.