Indigenous land acknowledgements have outlived their usefulness – Troy Media

January 4, 2023

Reconciliation should not be the stuff of soothing platitudes

Is it time to rethink indigenous land acknowledgments that often open energy-sector conference sessions?

Are we ready to question their utility and effectiveness in advancing the interests of Canada’s indigenous peoples?

Are they moving the reconciliation needle – or have they become little more than meaningless, monotone, and mechanistic verbiage?

In other words, have acknowledgements fundamentally devolved to a state of reconciliation by rote?