Our bar for qualifying as “acknowledgement of White Supremacy” was low: a marker simply had to have one phrase acknowledging that Native peoples were actively displaced or that there was racism towards people of color. We looked for signs, no matter how small, that questioned the valorization of white colonizers. For example, we included ‘Dead Indian Memorial Road’ as acknowledgement, because it referenced settlers’ hostility: "During the 1850s, the increased population of Euro-Americans, their occupation of traditional food gathering areas, and often hostile behavior, caused the most serious ‘Indian Wars’ in U.S. history." This is hardly a complete acknowledgement of the violence that white pioneers imposed on indigenous peoples, but we counted it.
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