The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy has two hubs in the United States: our Minneapolis, Minnesota headquarters and our Washington, D.C. office.
IATP acknowledges that Mni Sota Makoce (Minnesota) is the traditional, ancestral and contemporary homeland of the Dakota people, as well as a homeland of the Anishinaabe people, who have lived here for many generations. The state of Minnesota was established through a process of violent displacement of Native people by European-American settlers; this legacy continues to shape our complicated relationships with the land and with each other. The IATP Minneapolis office resides on Dakota land, which was ceded in the Treaties of 1837 and 1851.
Additionally, IATP recognizes the Nacotchtank and Piscataway people, the first residents of the land that is now referred to as the District of Columbia. The IATP office in Washington, D.C. resides on the ancestral home of Chesapeake Indigenous Tribes.
We acknowledge that words are not enough; we stand in solidarity with the Dakota and Anishinaabe people and with the Piscataway people. As we continue to grapple with our relationship to place and colonialism, we seek to align our work with the ongoing struggles for Indigenous sovereignty, land rights and justice in Minnesota and around the globe.
