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The Academy Awards featured a brief land acknowledgment during the ceremony Sunday night that drew scorn on social media. Actress Julianne Hough gave recognition to three Native American tribes in a ...

"[I]n the public university setting, student disagreement with a professor's academic speech on an issue of public concern cannot alter the Pickering analysis in the government's favor." A short ...

A professor who refused to bow to activist progressives and parrot land acknowledgements has scored a major First Amendment legal victory — after a years-long battle. “I’m not going to be silenced.

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 ...

Living in villages, bands, and confederacies, their traditional territories spanned the entire continent. Indigenous people still live among us, yet how many of us could name the specific tribe or ...

The Fairbanks City Council will enter 2026 with a new tradition after adopting a new ordinance Monday: a standing land acknowledgment statement recited at regular meetings.

Pratt Institute is situated in Lenapehoking, the traditional and unceded homeland of the Lenape, past, present, and future. The Lenape have been living on this land long before the United States was ...

Indigenous land acknowledgment signs will no longer be displayed in Mat-Su District school buildings, and traditional land acknowledgment statements will no longer be permitted at district events ...

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.