Rutgers Land Acknowledgement
A land acknowledgement is a way of honoring and offering recognition to Indigenous communities. We acknowledge that a statement without action is not enough. These acknowledgements serve as catalysts for further conversation within communities.
“We acknowledge that the land on which we stand is the ancestral territory of the Lenape People. We pay respect to Indigenous people throughout the Lenape diaspora – past, present, and future –and honor those who have been historically and systemically disenfranchised. We also acknowledge that Rutgers University, like New Jersey and the United States as a nation, was founded upon the exclusions and erasures of Indigenous peoples.”
Buildings with Enslaved Labor
The Scarlet and Black Research Center is an arm of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University - New Brunswick. As part of the research center, a slavery timeline was created by undergraduate students in Jesse Bayker’s Digital History course in the Public History Program at Rutgers University – New Brunswick using materials from the Scarlet and Black Digital Archive.
