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We live on the unceded ancestral land of the Tsalagi. We honor those who were here first to Togiyasdi, where the Tsalagi raced canoes where the French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers met, whose descendents were forcibly removed from their homes by the same federal government that seeks to separate families and destroy communities today.

The Tsalagi were here long before families like the McDowells, the Pattons, the Chunns, the Reynolds, the Bairds, and the Merrimons - all enslavers of African people. The city was named after Samuel Ashe, governor of North Carolina, a major enslaver who defended the right to slavery on the North Carolina Supreme Court. Each one of these families have names that haunt the streets of our city.

We also seek to acknowledge through our words and actions how the wealth of Asheville was built on chattel slavery by families who leveraged brutality, starvation, coercion, and force for their own financial gain.

We are committed to engaging in an ongoing practice of listening to Black and Native communities in Asheville, and taking action to repair the historical and ongoing harm of colonial and racialized violence, exploitation, and oppression.

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