Some Indigenous scholars have come to regard the standard land acknowledgment as “hollow” and “not enough.” To better understand how a land acknowledgment should be folded into more comprehensive ...

These days, land or territory acknowledgments are increasingly common, often made at the outset of public gatherings. In our industry, where we are reliant on a strong connection to the land and ...

Earlier this year, members of the San Jose City Council in California stood and recited the pledge of allegiance. Minutes later, Glorida Arellano-Gomez, councilwoman for the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe in ...

In response to a letter from Randy Griffin published on Dec. 11, where he criticized the City Council’s decision to recite a Land Acknowledgment, here is my critique of his critique. Mr. Griffin ...

CU Boulder recently introduced a campus land acknowledgment, reflecting on its own difficult origin story and founding in 1876 on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Arapaho, ...

Twenty months ago, Durango City Council decided the city needed an official statement acknowledging the cultural heritage and history of the land it was built on. This week, City Council was presented ...

An acknowledgment is a witnessed signature made by a person signing a formal document. This document is typically a deed, mortgage, or last will. The witness to the signature of the document at hand ...

For the first time in Cornell’s 156-year history, announcers presented an official land acknowledgment at the 2021 commencement ceremonies. The statement recognizes the University’s place on the ...

Every tutorial class in a particular subject starts with an Acknowledgment of Country. The spiel runs for about 30 seconds, offering the student time to scroll his social media before settling into ...