{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "land-acknowledgement-massachusetts", "title": "Land Acknowledgement - Massachusetts", "author": "Crystal Huff", "author_handle": "chaiya168671", "author_initials": "CH", "covertext": "A Land Acknowledgment is a formal statement that recognizes the unique and enduring relationship that exists between Ind...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>A Land Acknowledgment is a formal statement that recognizes the unique and enduring relationship that exists between Indigenous Peoples and their traditional territories.</p>\n\n<p>Acknowledgment by itself is a small gesture. It becomes meaningful when coupled with authentic relationships and informed action. This beginning, however, can increase public consciousness of Native sovereignty and cultural rights, a step toward equitable relationship and reconciliation. Join us in adopting, calling for, and spreading this practice.</p>\n\n<p>Naming is an exercise in power. Who gets the right to name or be named? Whose stories are honored in a name? Whose are erased? Acknowledgment of traditional land is a public statement of the name of the traditional Native inhabitants of a place. It honors their historic relationship with the land.</p>\n\n<p><strong>A few disclaimers about land acknowledgement:</strong></p>\n\n<p> <em>It’s simple. It's also not so simple. </em> In some cases the traditional inhabitants of a place may be clear. In other cases whom to recognize is much less so. Do your research. While the act of naming traditional inhabitants may not take much time, moving into right relationship requires preparation.</p>\n\n<p> <em>There is no one way of doing this.</em> <strong> </strong>There are currently 567 federally recognized tribal nations, each with its own history and protocols for welcome and acknowledgment. There are also state-recognized tribes and peoples, including Native Hawaiians who reside on six islands. (The very process of federal and state recognition is also rooted in problematic colonialism.)</p>\n\n<p> <em>Acknowledgment is made meaningful through specific context and relationship. </em> Whenever possible, the best entry point into the practice of acknowledgment is through relationship and dialogue with Native communities in the area.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Acknowledgment is but a first step. </em> It does not stand in for relationship and action, but can begin to point toward deeper possibilities for decolonizing relationships with people and place.</p>\n\n<p>Recognizing all of the above, we would like to acknowledge the land upon which we reside:</p>\n\n<p><strong>\"We acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the ancestral and seized territory of the Massa-adchu-es-et, Nipmuc, and Wompanoag Peoples.\"</strong></p>", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_CAyH4WUfQXTXo3MjZHRC00ajg/view", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/198407/Myles_Poster8.5x11-Massachusett.jpeg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/198407/conversions/Myles_Poster8.5x11-Massachusett-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 173, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Land Acknowledgement - Massachusetts | Passover haggadah by Crystal Huff", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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We...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>In washing our hands, we also think of those who don't have access to the basic human right of abundant, clean water.</p>\n\n<p>We keep in mind people deprived of water by the weather in Somalia, in India, in Puerto Rico.</p>\n\n<p>Those deprived of water by human action in places like Flint, Michigan and Beijing, China.</p>\n\n<p>As well as those whose homes have been ravaged by wind and water in Colombia, in California, and elsewhere.</p>\n\n<p>We are concerned for the indigenous peoples around the world, whose water has been polluted primarily by the actions of others.</p>\n\n<p>We are reminded of the homeless here in Massachusetts, whose access to clean, potable water is never assured.</p>\n\n<p>We wash our hands in this water tonight, and accept our responsibilities to those threatened by the presence and absence of water.</p>\n\n<p>We pray that those with the human power to change things do not wash their hands of what the world needs them to correct.</p>\n\n<p>We consider our own part in tikkun olam, healing the world, and what that might mean for water today.</p>", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": null, "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/198502/Water_drop_001.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/198502/conversions/Water_drop_001-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Urchatz", "slug": "urchatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 152, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Water | Passover haggadah by Crystal Huff", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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We rededicate ourselves to a thoughtful and courageous life, fighting tyranny and oppression.</p>\n\n<p>We also end the seder by saying \"Next year in Jerusalem,\" one of the final exhortations in the traditional haggadah. </p>\n\n<p>Jerusalem is one long-standing image of the ideal Jewish freedom, yet Israel itself is not an ideal state. Palestinians do not vote freely; the April 2019 elections in Israel involved oppressive monitoring of Palestinians and Arabs that explicitly discouraged those who were registered to vote from doing so. There is no system of absentee voting in Israel; if one is registered to vote as a citizen (already a hurdle), one must still be present on the day in question to cast one's ballot.</p>\n\n<p>The treatment of Palestinians in Israel is a tragedy, not the hoped-for dream.</p>\n\n<p>As we leave this seder, we must consider: what does it mean to long for freedom and yet know the Israeli state to be one of oppression?</p>", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": null, "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/198556/whitney-statue.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/198556/conversions/whitney-statue-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Conclusion", "slug": "conclusion" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 131, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Conclusion of the Seder - Or Is It? | Passover haggadah by Crystal Huff", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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At least we know what’s right and what’s wrong, what is inside and what is outside, and, most importantly—this, the Torah tells us is the whole point of Passover—who is us and who is them.</p>\n\n<p>But the Torah reminds us that the binary distinctions Passover affirms as the basis of Jewish identity can also be weaponized: the Exodus only happens because a Pharaoh who “did not know Joseph” decided that no matter how long Jews lived in Egypt, and no matter how much they had contributed to the culture, there was an absolute distinction between Jews and Egyptians that made Jews untrustworthy, disloyal, dangerous. That distinction became the basis for our enslavement in Egypt, just as it has been the basis for anti-Semitic actions throughout history.</p>\n\n<p>As a transgender Jew—a Jew whose gender doesn’t readily fit into the binary categories of male and female—I have always known that the binary distinctions on which we base identity can hurt as well as help, exclude as well as embrace, lead to oppression as well as liberation. Don’t get me wrong: I wasn’t against these distinctions, or against the identities that were built upon them. For most of my life, I longed to have that kind of binary-based identity, longed to have a body that fit my female gender identity, longed to build a life as a woman, instead of always having to hide the fact that in a world where everyone was supposed to be either male or female, man or woman, I was somehow both, and neither.</p>\n\n<p>But even as a child wishing for the kind of identity everyone else seemed to have, I noticed at Passover that the binary distinctions are hard to maintain. Passover is not only a festival that celebrates and enforces binary distinctions—it is also a festival that confronts us with our inability to make messy human reality conform to those distinctions. As maddening and uncomfortable as they can be, for me, the laws of Passover ensure that at least once a year, every observant Jew struggles with a condition of existence that transgender Jews live with and suffer from all the time: the fact that the binary distinctions on which Jews traditionally depend to define ourselves are unworkable simplifications of lives that are too complicated to fit within them. Most Jews do not identify as transgender, but like Joseph, the Egyptian Jew / Jewish Egyptian whose assimilation into Egyptian culture first brought our ancestors to Egypt, in one way or another, all of us are always more than either/or, this or that. This Passover, I hope you will join me in celebrating that.</p>\n\n<p>This excerpt is from Dr. Joy Ladin’s essay, “Passover: Festival of Binaries.” Joy Ladin is the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution. 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