LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The staff and artists of Dad’s Garage acknowledge that our theatre stands on traditional land of the Muscogee Creek Peoples. As grateful as we are for the privilege of living and working here, we are acutely aware that our use of this land is part of a long history of unjust colonization. We stand in solidarity with Indigenous People and acknowledge their sovereignty, culture, and enduring presence. 

The Muskogee Creek Nation’s ancestors inhabited the present states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina for thousands of years. However, from 1739-1832 the State of Georgia and the United States government targeted this indigenous population with genocidal ethnic cleansing, a series of broken treaties, and institutionally racist actions in order to acquire and colonize this land. Yet, despite the removal of the indigenous population, this is still Indigenous land. It will always be Indigenous land. 

The Muscogee Creek are not relics of the past. They are still here. Their cultural identity survives amid the deliberate oppression of a system built by and for colonizers. The Muscogee Nation stands over 86,100 strong, despite by centuries of genocide and terrorization by those who sought to stamp them out. 

Dad’s Garage acknowledges and honors the Muscogee Creek Nation, the true stewards of this land.