Our Land
Long before the Maryland State Normal School moved to its present location—eventually
becoming Towson University—the same land was home to Native and Indigenous populations
who used it for farming, trading and seasonal settlements. These communities and nations
include the Susquehannock, Nentego (Nanticoke) and the Piscataway people, for whom
the land that the university currently occupies is their ancestral homeland. so that all who come here know that we recognize our institutional history and our
responsibilities to the peoples of that land, and that we strive to address that history
so it guides our work in the present and the future.