The land we are standing on is Dakota land.
As the state’s natural history museum, the Bell Museum seeks to ignite curiosity and wonder, explore our connections to nature and the universe, and create a better future for our evolving world. The Bell Museum's goal is to advance understandings of the natural world that will create a sustainable future.
These understandings include the traditional knowledge systems of Indigenous peoples, the first inhabitants and caretakers of the land. These systems capture histories, relationships, and ecological expertise. To advance our mission, we rely on and share some aspects of Indigenous knowledge systems and understandings of the land. We do this in consultation with Indigenous peoples.
The Bell Museum sits on the traditional and treaty land of the Dakota people who, along with the Ojibwe people, are the Indigenous peoples of the land now called Minnesota.
--this is the land acknowledgement provided by the Bell Museum.
