Service Alert
Teen Vogue (2018)
Local Love (2019)
DC Line (2020)
IndigiNews (2021)
Resources from the US Department of Arts and Culture
Resources from the Native Governance Center
UNCG's statement: http://library.uncg.edu/info/land_acknowledgment.aspx
A posting with important questions and insights, based upon a Twitter thread by Dr. Debbie Reese, a Nambe Pueblo Indian woman
Land Acknowledgements Are Not Enough
Three anthropologists decry the use of land acknowledgments when they fail to advocate for genuine Indigenous sovereignty and the return of stolen lands.
Hayden King, an Anishinaabe writer and educator, spoke to host Rosanna Deerchild of the CBC show Unreserved about territorial acknowledgements, what they mean in today's political climate and how they can be improved. (January 2019)
Editorial in Inside Higher Ed, January 9, 2020. "Land acknowledgments don’t challenge us to reconsider beliefs or learn new things; they simply signal that the speaker is a faithful adherent of an ethical system that audience members presumably share. The signal promotes the speaker’s individual interests by providing the appearance of shared morality."
I’ve started acknowledging the people who lived on this land first – and you should too
Article appearing in The Conversation by Chip Colwell, Lecturer on Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver.