As part of our commitment to address the unresolved legacy of genocide, dispossession, and settler colonialism, Hennepin County acknowledges that the land and waterways from which our institutions benefit, are located upon the cultural, spiritual, and indigenous homeland of the Dakota people and other First People.

County institutions have benefited from unfavorable treaties, military campaigns, and settler colonialism, which encouraged white newcomers to settle and colonize the First Peoples territory.

Hennepin county recognizes the need for its institutions and personnel to work more closely with the Dakota people and all First Peoples in transformative partnerships, conversations, projects, engagement and consultation, events and workshops on Indigenous history, culture, and contemporary issues.