The land acknowledgement at my kid’s school is like:
With great gratitude and respect we acknowledge that we are learning and unlearning on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Salish and Tseil Watauth nations.
It’s really not a big deal.
I went to an event at the maritime museum last winter and the land acknowledgement there was awesome but I can understand why some people might not get it. It was a several minute talk about how the presence of the museum is an occupation and part of a campaign of legitimizing that occupation, and how we should be aware of how we were by our presence participating in that dispossession. The city literally removed indigenous homes to build the museum. Honestly we need more land acknowledgments that make people uncomfortable because what we did was pretty fucked up.
that deny the sovereignty of the Crown within British Columbia or that attribute collective guilt to individuals based on race, ancestry or the actions of Canadian historical figures.
Well this is just dishonest. Land acknowledgments just acknowledge the land was stolen by settlers. You do not have to believe in the notion of collective guilt to be in favour of land acknowledgment. It’s not about ascribing blame to anyone alive today; it’s about pointing out a problem that remains unsolved.
If you don’t like the term settler, it’s not even than. Just the acknowledgement that you’re with on treaty land, or more likely, on land not yet covered by a treaty. I guess there’s the implicit acknowledgement that signing and upholding treaties is a good thing.
True and agree but…
Practically speaking, almost all lands world wide have been (re)conquered at one point or another. This is a problem almost anywhere.
Can we at some point just acknowledge it in maybe a yearly remembrance somewhere? I just really wonder if we need to remind eachother multiple times per day, every day, that we live on the unconceded lands of…
I think we do need to remind everyone, until indigenous people get clean water, and stop being murdered by the RCMP
Oh absofuckinglutely yes to that, but in my head that is an obvious one that I just can’t grasp how that is still happening
I am amazed we have a Holiday (in some provinces) for Truth and Reconciliation, yet basic services are lacking for many communities.
We the British Columbians need to micromanage Dallas Brodie and John Rustad.
