Acknowledging Place
The Montana Performing Arts Consortium acknowledges that our work takes place on the ancestral and contemporary homelands of Indigenous peoples who have stewarded this land for generations.
Montana is home to many Tribal Nations, including the Assiniboine, Blackfeet, Chippewa Cree, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kootenai, Little Shell Chippewa, Northern Cheyenne, Pend d’Oreille, Salish, and Sioux peoples. These Nations maintain deep and ongoing relationships with this land, their cultures, and their communities.
As an organization dedicated to creative expression, community connection, and cultural exchange, MPAC recognizes that the performing arts have long been—and continue to be—a vital way Indigenous peoples share knowledge, history, identity, and resilience.
MPAC approaches this acknowledgment with humility. While we do not yet have formal or sustained relationships with Indigenous communities across the state, we seek to be curious, welcoming, and open to engagement. We aim to listen, learn, and build relationships over time, and to support the work of Indigenous artists whenever possible.
This acknowledgment is offered with respect and gratitude, and as a reminder of our responsibility to continue learning and showing up with care. We offer this acknowledgment as part of an ongoing commitment to reflection, learning, and respect—not as a conclusion, but as a beginning.