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.
November 16, 2022
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‘We belong to the land’
Ceremony acknowledges Moses Lake’s original people
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. “We acknowledge that the City of Moses Lake is encompassed by the historical homeland of the Škwáxčenex people (Moses-Columbia or Sinkiuse) of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. These lands were once a major trading center for the tribes of the Columbia Plateau. The Moses-Columbia shared this place by welcoming other tribes through their relations, history, trade and ceremony,” the land acknowledgment reads.