Land & Labor Acknowledgement

This directory offers care on lands that have been home to Indigenous peoples since time immemorial — lands that were stewarded, loved, and never willingly ceded. We offer our respect to the past, present, and future caretakers of this place, and we recognize that colonization is ongoing, not history.

We honor the 29 federally recognized Tribal Nations of Washington:

• Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation
• Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
• Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation
• Cowlitz Indian Tribe
• Hoh Tribe
• Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe
• Kalispel Tribe of Indians
• Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe
• Lummi Nation
• Makah Tribe
• Muckleshoot Indian Tribe
• Nisqually Indian Tribe
• Nooksack Indian Tribe
• Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe
• Puyallup Tribe of Indians
• Quileute Tribe
• Quinault Indian Nation
• Samish Indian Nation
• Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe
• Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe
• Skokomish Indian Tribe
• Snoqualmie Indian Tribe
• Spokane Tribe of Indians
• Squaxin Island Tribe
• Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians
• Suquamish Tribe
• Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
• Tulalip Tribes
• Upper Skagit Indian Tribe

Because Indigenous homelands and treaty rights do not stop at state lines, we also honor Tribal Nations whose ancestral homelands and treaty-reserved rights extend into Washington though they are headquartered elsewhere — including the Nez Perce Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, who (with the Yakama Nation) hold treaty rights to fish, hunt, and gather at usual and accustomed places across this land.

We also honor the Duwamish Tribe, the Chinook Indian Nation, the Snohomish, Steilacoom, Kikiallus, Marietta Band of Nooksack, and other Tribes and peoples whose sovereignty and federal recognition are still denied or contested — and every Indigenous person living in Washington today, on and off reservation.

We further acknowledge that this state was built on the labor — often coerced, underpaid, and erased — of many marginalized communities: enslaved and free Black Americans; Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and other Asian immigrant workers who built the railroads, canneries, farms, and cities of Washington while facing exclusion laws, sundown towns, and wartime incarceration; Latine and Indigenous migrant farmworkers; Pacific Islander, refugee, and immigrant communities; and the disabled, queer, and trans people whose contributions were long unrecognized. Their labor and resistance are woven into every part of this place.

A land and labor acknowledgement is a beginning, not an end. If you live or work on this land, we urge you to go further than words: pay rent to the Native nations whose land this is. Many have set up direct, ongoing ways to give.