About those land acknowledgments

Indigenous Peoples see the hypocrisy of land acknowledgments without any work to back them up. Don’t stop affirming Indigenous Peoples at the start of meetings, but there'd better be more than boilerplate land acknowledgements in departments, organizations, conferences and companies.
University of Ottawa chancellor and Elder Claudette Commanda speaks at the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on Jan. 26, 2024.

OTTAWA—Land acknowledgments are an expected protocol to start meetings and even in email signatures. But what are they accomplishing? One can imagine the email from the feds to First Nations police chiefs, refusing to fund them equitably to any other police force...

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