Mission & Acknowledgements

Our mission is to serve as an educational resource on the long history of exclusion, marginalization, and human rights abuses suffered by indigenous communities around the world. More specifically, we will focus on two case studies: New Zealand’s Maori and Guatemala’s Maya communities. We hope to highlight the rich legacy and perseverance of the Maori & Maya peoples through a number of informational posts, art, and media that will help contextualize the current state of New Zealand and Guatemala’s indigenous communities. Lastly, we will examine the role that international organizations like the United Nations have played in shaping the way that indigenous communities are perceived and treated today, and the steps that must be taken to achieve positive structural peace. 

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Before we open our project we would like to acknowledge and pay respects to the indigenous communities and elders both past and present native to these ancestral lands, the Setalcott Indigenous Tribe where Stony Brook University resides. As well as the remaining twelve indigenous tribes: the Matinecock, the Nissequogue, the Corchaug, the Secatogue, the Unkechaug, the Manhassets, the Montauk, and the Shinnecock Tribes of Long Island. As we, settlers on this land, all have an important role in reconciliation with the Indigenous Peoples who were here long before all of us.

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This website was compiled by M’Leigha Buchanan, Vincent D’Elia, Maura Gilmore, Christopher Luna & Karan Phokela as a Multi-Media research project that is part of Stony Brook University’s Institute for Globalization Studies’ Conflict Resolution & Peacemaking Course under the supervision of Dr. Peg Spitzer and Dr. Katherine Sawyer.