Duke Regan is only four, but he knows every single word of the Acknowledgment of Country. He learnt the words at kindergarten: "I'd like to acknowledge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation who are ...

Land acknowledgments honor the contributions, histories and place-based knowledge of Indigenous peoples with historic and contemporary ties to lands across what is today known as the United States.

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 ...

Every morning, at the start of the school day in Toronto, my children hear the following inelegant little paragraph read aloud, just before the singing of “O Canada”: I would like to acknowledge that ...

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 ...

The Democratic National Committee kicked off its annual summer meeting in Minneapolis with a "land acknowledgment" that included an assertion that the U.S. perpetuates a system of suppression. "Let's ...

Recently, I was on a conference call during which the organizers of the meeting asked each participant to give an acknowledgment of the Indigenous people whose land they were calling from, a ...

In David Mamet’s film State and Main, a Hollywood big shot tries to shortchange a set hand by offering him an “associate producer” credit on a movie. A screenwriter overhears the exchange and asks, ...

In October, 2020, CU President Mark Kennedy issued an official Land Acknowledgment statement – a first for the CU System. The text of that statement can be found here. The University of Colorado ...