Outdoors Empowered Network acknowledges that it is located on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. We recognize that, as the original stewards of this land, the Ramaytush Ohlone understood the interconnectedness of all things and maintained harmony with nature for millennia, and honors the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples for their enduring commitment to Mother Earth.

Land Acknowledgment explicitly counteracts a culture of erasure of Indigenous Peoples, their history, and their current culture and communities. In the Red Paper “How to become an Ally to Indigenous People” The Seventh Generation Fund says “Learn History.” This is the first thing indigenous Peoples ask non-Natives to do. Start with whose ancestral land you live on now. Where are the people today and what are their stories? What treaties were signed, and how were they violated”.

As part of our commitment to repair, OEN does not charge membership dues or other fees to Indigenous-led members. We are emphatically clear that this is to make reparations and not a gesture of charity or colonizer saviourism.