Land Acknowledgements are formal statements for outside communities, such as BBST, to use to help recognize and respect the past, present, and future of our Lummi and Nooksack community members as the traditional stewards of this land.

The statement can facilitate and foster better relationships between our communities. It is designed to provide a pathway of communication to build and achieve a good-standing relationship and become successful at being good neighbors. 

We, the Bellingham Bay Swim Team, acknowledge we are residing on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Lummi People. The Lummi People are the original inhabitants of Washington's northernmost coast and southern British Columbia. They lived in villages throughout this territory and continue to have an ongoing relationship with these areas. Since Time Immemorial they have celebrated life on their land, water ways and on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of their People to perpetuate their way of life. Please join us in taking a moment of silence as we honor their ancestors and as we acknowledge the past, present and future Lummi People as the original inhabitants of this land.