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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.

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BY ROSE LEMAY
March 4, 2024

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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.

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