{"id":227674,"date":"2026-04-07T10:50:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/?p=227674"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:50:49","slug":"montclair-state-university-announces-updated-land-acknowledgement-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2026\/04\/07\/montclair-state-university-announces-updated-land-acknowledgement-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Montclair State University Announces Updated Land Acknowledgement Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montclair State University has announced an updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/land-acknowledgement-statement\/\">Land Acknowledgement Statement<\/a>, demonstrating an active commitment to support and honor Indigenous peoples and their rich legacies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to announce this milestone, which reflects many months of meaningful collaboration between our Native American and Indigenous Studies team and University leadership,\u201d says Shannon Bellum, University Senate President. \u201cWe believe the new statement is a truer reflection of our values and commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Montclair community are invited, though not required, to use the new statement as a meaningful addition to their work, events, and communications as they see fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work did not happen quickly, nor should it have,\u201d Bellum adds. \u201cAuthentic acknowledgement and commitment to action take time, relationship, and care. We are grateful to everyone who contributed to this process and to the tribal communities who have engaged with us in good faith along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/ Output tags as a list for Google Analytics custom dimension\nwindow.MSU_TagList = [\"Functional Announcements\"];\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The update was developed in collaboration with the University\u2019s Native American and Indigenous Studies program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":226694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,10],"tags":[444],"class_list":["post-227674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-news","category-university","tag-functional-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227676,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227674\/revisions\/227676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}