Land Acknowledgement

Acknowledgement of the SHET’LH-shet-lhuts as the original occupants of land.

St. Augustine’s in-the-Woods acknowledges that we occupy the unceded ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples, of the Northern Lushootseed language group; in particular the SHET’LH-shet-lhuts (‘burnt leaves’). We stand with these and other indigenous people worldwide who are demanding restoration of their ancestral lands.

Coastal Salish Territories
Native Tribes of Whidbey
South Whidbey Native History