What Do Land Acknowledgements Really Mean? – The Tyee

And how do Indigenous people really feel about them?

Today, land acknowledgements often show up at the beginning of most events, the bottom of many webpages and email signatures, and in “about us” sections.

They usually go a little something like this: “*insert organization here* would like to acknowledge that we are on the traditional and unceded lands of the *names of local nations*, whose relationship with this land continues to this day.” (You can read The Tyee’s on the website’s contact page, under “Acknowledgements,” for example.)

Land acknowledgements, also known as territory acknowledgements, can be used as an act of decolonization, by naming Indigenous nations, recognizing their traditional lands and stating that these lands were taken in colonization.

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