We are based at Iowa State University in Ames, IA, on the ancestral lands and territory of the Baxoje or Ioway Nation. The United States obtained the land from the Meskwaki and Sauk nations in the Treaty of 1842. Iowa State University is also a direct beneficiary of the 1862 Morrill Act, which turned land expropriated from tribal nations into seed money for higher education. This land acknowledgement is a small part of disrupting and dismantling colonial structures. We wish to recognize our obligations to this land and to the people who took care of it, as well as the 17,000 Native people who live in Iowa today.