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Do you live anywhere where people in professional situations perform land acknowledgements before meetings, or classes, or get-togethers, where they acknowledge the land they've taken away from indigenous peoples?
This is done everywhere in Canadian universities and colleges--they cannot have any sort of gathering without first having the initial speaker make the acknowledgement. I've heard they do in California universities too.
It's like a kind of secular prayer before meetings.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 12, 2021 11:52 PM |
This was done before each and every one of Trump’s cabinet meetings.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 12, 2021 10:51 PM |
What about my trailer what got repossessed? Huh? What about dat?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 12, 2021 10:52 PM |
Right before the COVID lockdown I went to a lecture on a college campus and the moderator did this before introducing the speaker.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 12, 2021 10:58 PM |
I work at a university in Chicago, and I know it has been done sometimes. At least for now, it hasn't become a routine part of all gatherings/ceremonies/etc., for which I'm glad. It's ridiculous to make it a routine thing. Guess what - all land in the world has been fought over previously, and there are winners and losers in every war. You don't have to acknowledge the losers every day for eternity.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 12, 2021 10:59 PM |
If it's so fucking disturbing that you must make daily atonement, stop being a hypocrite and give the land back, assholes.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 12, 2021 11:01 PM |
I know of a regional theatre company that in Before Times used include a land acknowledgement in the pre-show turn-off-your-damn-phone announcement.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 12, 2021 11:12 PM |
There should be a ritual where everyone gloats over having stolen the land.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 12, 2021 11:14 PM |
Many of the non-profit / off-broadway theaters are doing it now; its really the apotheosis of an empty, feel-good gesture -- donate some of the event's proceeds a tribal education fund and actually do some good.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 12, 2021 11:33 PM |
I would love it if businesses did the same thing with plaques by the door.
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| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 12, 2021 11:46 PM |
I have always honored my ancestors in this way! I toast their sacrifice with tiswin, made with maize. You call it corn.
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