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“I was moved to tears when my daughter and I saw Free Land and I have been raving about it ever since. I am glad to have such a wonderful young performer understand the plight of the ancestors and to remember those that came before us on this land”.
Corrina Gould
Ohlone/Muwekma/Chochenyo, Founder of Indian People Organizing for Change
 
“Free Land is wonderfully fast-paced, energetic and sensitive… an engaging human spark. Ariel Luckey models awareness, action, respect and joy in the work toward recognition, reconciliation, social justice and wholeness”.
Peggy McIntosh
Author of “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
“Free Land captivated me… Ariel brings a desperately needed understanding of inclusion and integration that radiates from the platform of diversity and history. My students were completely moved… Free Land utilizes expressive arts in a highly grounded academic and emotional program to define the real history of these "United" states in hopes of someday having a free land for all to live”.
John Agnelli
Director, Student Development and Campus Activities, PACE University, New York
"Free Land is emotionally powerful and accessible to a wide array of audiences. Ariel Luckey’s critically important work addresses the past and current relationship between white settlers and native people. The question of how land was stolen, which is at the heart of Free Land, is a shadow issue that our culture must deal with if we are ever to make peace with nature and native people."
Toby McLeod
Director and Producer, In the Light of Reverence
“Our students were blown away by the power and punch of Free Land… an intimate and honest, yet expansive and powerful performance piece… Free Land gives us a critical history lesson, an on-target hip hop performance, a story of growing up in white America, and the real truth behind the high price paid for Free Land“.
Steve Chabon
Dean of Student Life, Drew High School, San Francisco
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“Free Land does an extraordinary job communicating one of the most critical issues of the past to today’s audience. The history of land is important in understanding where we are today and the direction we are going as a global community. Free Land effectively articulates the truth… and is as phenomenal as it is thought provoking”.
Rufus M. Spear
Chairman of the Cultural Commission, Northern Cheyenne Tribe
Ariel Luckey's Free Land hits on the pressure points of race, privilege and history with humor, insight and force”.
Allison Albee
High School Teacher, June Jordan School of Equity, San Francisco, California
“Ariel Luckey's performance at our school was one of the most powerful and important assemblies we have ever had. Free Land captured both the hearts and minds of our students… a perfect event to celebrate the work of Martin Luther King, Jr…. a call to arms for all of us to work for social justice.”
Mal Singer
Community Service Learning Director, University High School, San Francisco, California
“You brought to light that genocide happens everyday and we don’t really think about it, but we should think about it and do something about it”.
Noah St. John
Fifth Grader, Malcolm X Elementary School, Berkeley, California
“Free Land is insightful, personal, relevant, timely, educational and emotionally moving… I recommend it with the highest praise to any academic institution that wants to further the education of its students in an accessible and touching manner”.
Professor Dana Lawton
Director of Dance, St. Mary's College, Moraga, California
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