Indigenous Land Acknowledgements
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Published 2021-09-09
All Comments (13)
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It's a simple, brief statement that "This USED to be your land, and we acknowledge that. Even though we won't give it back. We could. We could sign the deeds over right now. But we're just VIRTUE SIGNALING. We don't really feel you have rights to this land and they were taken and that they should be given back. No. We'll "acknowledge" indigenous land and remind you before every event that you DID own it but not anymore :)
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Aaniin, thank you Anton, this was direct and very easily understood. Miigwech
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Land acknowledgement is embarrassing.
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Thank you Anton!
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Ayukii (hello in my native language)! I got my school to do a land acknowledgment! I taught the teacher how to say all the native words for the acknowledgment , which was a bit difficult. She didn’t even know what land she was on!
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I can't think of anything more insulting than a land acknowledgement. "Hey, I know we took your land and all but at least I reminded you of it before I gave this public speech, right? I mean, we're not going to give the land back or anything remotely like that, but we do actually care, and you know we care because we made this land acknowledgement that took all of 4 seconds..."
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Thank you so much Anton. As a queer, adopted, Native American, I want to include this in my wedding in Kenosha, Wisconsin (my partner's home). I felt this would be appropriate, especially given the current environment.
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So, generations ago, a bunch of bad things happened, and now an acknowledgement statement is going to fix history and make everyone feel better now? M'kay...
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So if I buy a property from a foreclosure auction and find out the previous owners are Canadian, should I put an "Indigenous Land Acknowledgement" sign in my yard?
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In Winnipeg they always acknowledge the Metis, Anishiinabe, Dakota, Dene and Inuit. I think thats too cumbersome, and it comes from a colonial perspective because it encompasses all indigenous groups from the entirety of our province. But the Debe and Inuit would honestly have never made it within 500 KMs of Winnipeg. It was never their homelabd or territory yet they are always included
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I think we should all acknowledge the fact that wild animals lived here first, and we took it from them and will continue to take it from them, but we acknowledge that it’s not always right. But we will continue as usual. Kind of feels like that’s what landing knowledge meant is as a whole.
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Rather than seek land acknowledgement. Try getting clean water to those reserves that dont have it.if you can't solve that problem you wont solve an impossible one.
