Committed to Our Heritage and Community

At IVERY INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENT, we acknowledge our responsibility towards the indigenous people  of Memphis Tennessee. 
This is an acknowledgement statement for Memphis TN. We recognize and acknowledge that we are on the historic homeland of the Chickasaw Nation, which they inhabited. 
Memphis and all of Tennessee was the long-established territory for many indigenous people, including the Choctaw and Quapaw Nations, prior to their forced removal and, for some, the attempt on the unforeseen extinction of the people. 
We have a responsibility to acknowledge our people and histories of these lands. Our ability to live here is the result of direct coercion, force dispossession, and deliberate colonization. To ignore that is to perpetuate injustice to populations of people that we are the descendants of in this state, yet, have established major societies elsewhere in this country.