By Paolo Zialcita | Published by Colorado Public Radio | October 13, 2025 

Rick Williams doesn’t just want your land acknowledgment. 

You’ve probably heard them at meetings or graduations. The idea is to take a few short minutes to acknowledge the land where you’re sitting was once home to Native tribes before white settlers came and built cities on top of it. 

Williams, an Oglala Lakota citizen with Cheyenne ancestry, is asked to do them a lot. Sometimes, he even does. It’s a chance for him to take the ideas presented in a typical land acknowledgment one step further. Listen to the audio story and read the full article here.