The FLIP Museum acknowledges that what we now know as the Portland metro area covering both sides of the Columbia and Willamette rivers, is the traditional homelands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla and hundreds of other tribes. This land is the time-honored home of these communities who were relocated to the Grand Ronde Reservation under the Kalapuya 1855 ratified treaty also known as the Willamette Valley treaty. Today these tribes are part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.

The Grand Ronde people continue to maintain a connection to their ancestral homelands and maintain their traditional cultural practices. We acknowledge the robust present day tribes who fought and fight for federal recognition and land back while supporting a modern Indigenous community that represents a global network of Indigenous sovereignty.

We acknowledge that the land we occupy as residents in all of United States and its colonies is constructed on stolen Native lands built on the backs and lives of Black people forcibly taken from their homelands. We acknowledge that this genocide, displacement and systematic oppression happens still to this day.

FLIP hopes to bring awareness to the past and current experiences of Indigenous and Black peoples, and to highlight the ongoing resilience and solidarity between and among Indigenous and Black peoples. We hope to create future opportunities for children to connect with the natural world and with indigenous wisdom through the exchange of stories and embark on a process of fostering authentic relationships with the land and with one another. By creating a space for children to honor place stories that are often held in indigenous communities, we hope to move beyond land acknowledgement in name only and also through action that impacts future generations.