Acknowledgments
Idaho State University Land Acknowledgement
Acknowledging Native lands is an important way to honor and respect Indigenous peoples and their traditional territories. The land on which Idaho State University’s Pocatello campus sits is within the original Fort Hall Reservation boundaries and is the traditional and ancestral home of the Shoshone and Bannock peoples. We acknowledge the Fort Hall Shoshone and Bannock peoples, their elders past and present, their future generations, and all Indigenous peoples, including those upon whose land the University is located. We offer gratitude for the land itself and the original caretakers of it.
As a public research university, it is our ongoing commitment and responsibility to teach accurate histories of the regional Indigenous people and of our institutional relationship with them. It is our commitment to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and to ISU’s citizens that we will collaborate on future educational discourse and activities in our communities.
To learn more about Native Americans and the indigenous people of Idaho and why we use land acknowledgments, visit ISU’s Land Acknowledgment website.
Other Acknowledgments
This OER would not exist without the contributions of my graduate students, whose curiosity, creativity, and hard work helped shape many of the chapters. I’m also grateful to the many original OER authors, whose work we learned from, wrestled with, and built upon. Thank you for generously openly licensing your work! To Dr. John Curry, who introduced me to OER in my master’s program, and to Dr. David Wiley, who embodies the curious, generous, and humble work of open education, for their example, mentorship, and friendship. To the H5P Community, who I proudly represent as an H5P Ambassador, for infusing play, imagination, and curiosity into instruction. Finally, to Karna Younger, my amazing OER for Social Justice colleague, for your insight, deep librarian and legal knowledge, and refreshing wit. You daily keep my work fresh and our work in the open world enjoyable.
