A first step toward positive actionīut other Indigenous experts say land acknowledgments do have value. Isn't that a shame?' And I don't wish to be made to feel that way," Gover said.
"If I hear a land acknowledgment, part of what I'm hearing is, 'There used to be Indians here. Gover said the statements - which first appeared in Australia back in the 1970s in the push for Aboriginal peoples' rights and more recently blossomed in Canada with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report, which brought to light how generations of Indigenous schoolchildren had been stripped of their native languages and cultural traditions - can also feel disempowering to the very people they're supposed to uplift. And they've even been parodied on TV, in series like Reservation Dogs, about the exploits of a group of Oklahoma Indigenous teens. The debate is more than a niche issue the pros and cons of land acknowledgments are the subject of myriad mainstream media articles, social media posts and online videos. While some say they are a waste of time, others are working to make the well-meaning but often empty speeches more useful. Indigenous leaders and activists have mixed feelings about land acknowledgments. Many mainstream public events - from soccer games and performing arts productions to city council meetings and corporate conferences - begin with these formal statements recognizing Indigenous communities' rights to territories seized by colonial powers. Land acknowledgments have become increasingly common nationwide over the past few years.
Read more about Carapella's mapping project. Above is a detail of a Tribal Nations Map by Aaron Carapella. A land acknowledgment is a statement before an event recognizing the Indigenous communities that originally inhabited the event space.
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