To acknowledge the ancestors that were here before us and to acknowledge the Native/Indigenous people who are part of our community today.

We acknowledge that the land we now call Portland, OR and Multnomah County were the traditional lands and village sites of the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla and many other Tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River. Today, people from these bands have become part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, as well as the Chinook Nation and Cowlitz Nation in Washington State.