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 ...

In the comedy series “Reservation Dogs” about four Native American teens growing up on a reservation in eastern Oklahoma, one scene parodies land acknowledgments. A visiting doctoral student offers a ...

Recently, I was on a conference call during which the organizers of the meeting asked each participant to give an acknowledgment of the Indigenous people whose land they were calling from, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

To the editor: On Dec. 15, the Fairbanks City Council voted (4 to 3) to mandate that a land acknowledgment proclamation be recited at the beginning of every city council meeting, next to the ...

CU Boulder recently introduced a campus land acknowledgment, reflecting on its own difficult origin story and founding in 1876 on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Arapaho, ...

When Stuart Reges, a University of Washington computer science professor, was directed to place a land acknowledgment in his syllabus, he wrote one of his own. That land acknowledgment may very well ...

An acknowledgment is a witnessed signature made by a person signing a formal document. This document is typically a deed, mortgage, or last will. The witness to the signature of the document at hand ...