Friends of Stewart Park acknowledges that Stewart Park and the Cayuga Waterfront Trail are located on the traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫˀ  Nation, one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Stewart Park, Ithaca, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ people, past and present, to these lands and waters.