Land acknowledgements have become common at gatherings and official meetings. I appreciate the gesture, but have long dreamed of a tangible, interactive sculpture situated on the land we refer to.

Acknowledgement set in the landscape orients the viewer. Viewers are invited to sit at the table to consider the landscape and shared history of the region. The compass rose has an inner and outer circle of names: the inner circle refers to the Ancestral names of the original people of Hampshire, Hamden and Franklin Counties in MA. The outer circle names and acknowledges the continuous and current presence of Native people in the wider region of Dawn Land now called New England. Acknowledgement is meant to confront the trope of the "Disappeared Indian" asserting "We are here" has always been true.