The Waawiiyaataanong Arts Council is a group of artists, activists, cultural workers, and community organizers with many intersectional identities that centers Indigenous and Black voices. The Waawiiyaataanong Arts Council exists to facilitate the collective liberation of all, through advocating for the repatriation of all Indigenous land and life, and by enacting new forms of kinship and reciprocal relation among all of the inhabitants of what is currently called North America.

At the moment our work centers around a distinct type of colonial institution where we currently have the most leverage: the museum. Our most immediate goal is to reimagine practices of Land Acknowledgment, in ways that emphasize the importance of meaningful action, continued commitment, transparency, accountability, and long term relationship building, 

The council will work with regional cultural institutions in what is currently called Detroit to implement Land Acknowledgement practices that move beyond symbolic gestures, and include short and long term plans for the redistribution of institution’s power, privilege, resources, and eventually, land.