Join us in honoring

Join us in honoring and acknowledging that we’re shaped by our collective lineages and land. We acknowledge that our understanding has been shaped by just a tiny slice of our collective human experience. May this practice inspire us to reflect on our relationships with our lineage, the land, and all the people we share with—across geography and time.

Land Acknowledgment

It’s with privilege and gratitude that we pay our respects to the pre-colonial ancestors of the land we occupy (Osage, Quapaw, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, and Caddo) and utilize (Ramaytush Ohlone)—and to the descendants, elders, relatives, and Spirits of their communities.

Soul Song Sanctuary services are based in the White River watershed in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. We are privileged to reside on the ancestral lands of the Osage, Quapaw, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, and Caddo who tended this land for thousands of years before European settlers began displacing and trying to erase them. We also acknowledge that a portion of the Trail of Tears runs through our town, and that the Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), Chickasaw and Seminole Nations passed through what is now known as Arkansas during this forced removal.

This website is hosted on computers residing on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, the pre-colonial inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula, and an integral and active community in the Bay Area and beyond. We pay our respects to the pre-colonial ancestors of the land we occupy, utilize, and visit—and to the descendants, elders, relatives, and Spirits of their communities—and affirm their sovereign rights as First Peoples.