North Coast Open Studios takes place in Humboldt County, on the present and ancestral Homeland and unceded territory of the Wiyot Tribe.

We acknowledge that our region’s racial landscape was formed by both physical and political exclusion of non-whites and the exploitation of resources from stolen lands, cultural theft, and genocidal violence. The cities, townships, and rural homesteads we all inhabit today exist on land that was stolen from Hupa, Karuk, Mattole, Tolowa, Wailaki, Wiyot, Yurok, and many Indigenous Sovereign Nations that were adopted into these and other tribes to survive colonialism.

Why are we sharing a land acknowledgement? Please learn from this lesson by Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy.