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The Yale School of Architecture sits on traditional Indigenous territories. This includes lands of the Mohegan, Mohican, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, Quinnipiac, and other Algonquian speaking peoples. We pay respect to their peoples of past and present.

Yale University and Yale School of Architecture have benefitted from lands gained through fulfilled and unfulfilled articles of agreement with Indigenous nations and from land cession of Indigenous territories.

The Indigenous peoples who have stewarded these lands for time immemorial remain impacted by discussions of space and place. Yale School of Architecture will continue to work, advance, and teach these histories in architectural education and the profession.

As mediators, we will learn from the generations before us to instill cognizant ways of being in spatial environments with shared histories. As architectural professionals, we will imagine endless possibilities for architectures of reconciliation, reciprocity and transformation; an architecture for those yet to be born, an architecture of the spirit.

https://www.architecture.yale.edu/about-the-school/tribal-land-acknowledgement

The Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning, & Design was founded in 2018 by Yale University architecture students Charelle Brown, Anjelica S. Gallegos, and Summer Sutton. Today, the ISAPD has grown into a global organization.

The organization supports current and future Indigenous architecture students and professionals, while working to increase "international knowledge, consciousness, and appreciation of Indigenous architecture, planning, and design."

The group states, "as Indigenous Scholars, our communities are rooted in an enriched ecological past; we will contribute toward a restorative revolution that rebuilds connections between the built and natural. For Indigenous nations, architecture can serve as a path to exercise and celebrate tribal sovereignty. Challenging the current status quo in architecture is vital to propelling Indigenous architecture and all architecture into a future of true sustainability."

ISAPD Yale Student Chapter Website

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