In the 2019-20 school year, when students at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University crafted and urged official passage of a statement acknowledging that the school lay on former native lands in Nashville, ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, members of the San Jose City Council in California stood and recited the pledge of allegiance. Minutes later, Glorida Arellano-Gomez, councilwoman for the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe in ...

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 ...

Faculty members at San Diego State University will meet Tuesday to reconsider a policy that has raised eyebrows nationwide: a requirement that instructors include a land acknowledgment on their ...

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 ...

"[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 ...

William James once said, "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” When's the last time you told someone they did an awesome job? My guess is that, in that particular ...

Every tutorial class in a particular subject starts with an Acknowledgment of Country. The spiel runs for about 30 seconds, offering the student time to scroll his social media before settling into ...