These are troubling times. We are witnessing changes in our government that most of us never imagined we would see. I am sad at the world we are potentially leaving
. . . . . because if you heard that we were NOT going to have a Leadership Team meeting this coming Saturday, Nov. 5 — well, plans have changed! You
Leelanau County Democratic Party
P. O. Box 215
Empire, MI 49630
(231) 903-0001
[email protected]
Leelanau County occupies the ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of Anishinaabek people. The Leelanau County Democratic Party recognizes The Anishinaabek of the Three Fires Confederacy, the Odawa (Ottawa), Ojibwe (Chippewa), and Bode’wadmi (Potawatomi); historic Indigenous communities in Michigan; and those who were forcibly removed from their homelands. Leelanau County occupies land ceded in the treaty of 1855. We give thanks to the Anishinaabek as the caretakers of Mother Earth and for their relationship to the land; We further recognize the ongoing relationship of dependence upon, and respect for, all living beings of earth, sky, and water. In offering this land acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty, history, and experiences.
