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 ...

Twenty months ago, Durango City Council decided the city needed an official statement acknowledging the cultural heritage and history of the land it was built on. This week, City Council was presented ...

Alisa Yu first became intrigued with emotional acknowledgment while interviewing nurses working in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. The nurses told ...

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 ...

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 ...