‘We belong to the land’
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Business Council member Karen Condon speaks during the land acknowledgment ceremony in the auditorium of the Moses Lake Civic Center on Tuesday.
Charles H. Featherstone/Columbia Basin Herald
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Business Council member Karen Condon stands beind a driftwood sculpture of a heron made by former Moses Lake resident Mike Salazar for the land acknowledgment ceremony Tuesday.
Speakers at the land acknowledgment ceremony (L-R): Stephanie Massart, Regent of the Karneetsa Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Moses Lake Mayor Don Myers; Big Bend Community College Vice President for Learning and Success Bryce Humpherys; Moses Lake School District Superintendent Monty Sabin; Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Business Council Member Karen Condon and tribal member John Sirois.
MOSES LAKE — At an hour-long ceremony on Tuesday, officials with the city of Moses Lake formally recognized the city sits on the homeland of the Moses-Columbia, or Škwáxčenex, people of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation.
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