For hundreds of years, the land in which the Pembroke-Hopkins Park [PHP] community resides was the site for trade, agricultural commerce, and a respite for indigenous tribes, like the Three Fires Confederacy [Potawatomi (Pah-tah-wah-toh-mee), Odawa (ah-doh-wah), and Ojibwe (oh-jeeb-wah) Nations], and African-Americans escaping the brutalities of the Slave Trade and Jim Crowe South. They preserved these lands, providing the richness and beauty we see today. The CDC wishes to continue to honor and steward this rare gift of land and forward it to the next generations and beyond…