Land Acknowledgment

Fig Tree Counseling is located on the traditional unceded homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. Many other tribes such as the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, and Fox also called this area home. The region has long been a center for Indigenous people to gather, trade, and maintain kinship ties. Today, one of the largest urban American Indian communities in the United States resides in Chicago. Members of this community continue to contribute to the life of this city and to celebrate their heritage, practice traditions, and care for the land and waterways

We recognize that Indigenous peoples — who lived here long before Chicago was a city and are still thriving here to this day — are the rightful and traditional stewards of this land. For settlers on our team, we acknowledge we occupy and participate in exploitation of Land that are not native to us. Fig tree Counseling advocates for Land Back and Indigenous Sovereignty. Operating within this context, we strive to create pro-bono and low cost services to better support the struggles of our Indigenous community members as they continue to fight for sovereignty and self-determination.

For more information about settler colonial history focused on Chicagou/Chicago, visit the Settler Colonial City Project. To see a map of Native lands and learn more about the history of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler-Indigenous relations, visit Native Land.