This Land and OUR History

"The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood.”

—Mary Brave Bird, Lakota Nation

The Shirley-Eustis House Association acknowledges that Shirley Place rests upon the unceded ancestral homeland of the Massachusett people.

As a historical organization, we recognize that American Indian, Native American, Indigenous, First Peoples, and First Nations are present and alive today and are not mere relics of history; and we further recognize that their history and future is deeply linked to this land we occupy.

We understand and embrace our responsibility to amplify the histories and livelihoods of our region’s Indigenous peoples, and to work toward dismantling the destructive legacies of colonialism.

Photo credit: Tina J. Rodocker. Detail of a reproduction toile.