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Should major public events include land acknowledgment statements?

Land acknowledgments have become increasingly common nationwide over the past few years. 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. The 2024 Democratic National Convention began with an introduction reminding delegates how the convention is being held on land that was "forcibly removed" from Indigenous tribes. Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Tribal Council Vice-Chairman Zach Pahmahmie and Tribal Council Secretary Lorrie Melchior took to the stage at the start of the convention where they welcomed the Democratic Party to their "ancestral homelands."

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 @9TR9MX5 from Michigan  answered…2yrs2Y

While land acknowledgment is vital, making grand and generalized statements in public gatherings helps no one. Give the land back.

 @9ZBHJWD from New York  answered…2yrs2Y

The property can have plaques and educational resources but acknowledgment statements during events are not necessary

 @B6GYJQ3 from Virginia  answered…10mos10MO

Maybe just give the people whose land we took money and put up a sign. Maybe do an announcement at big events.

 @B7JCZXV from Ohio  answered…9mos9MO

Yes, If it is directly involved with something to do with what the land or tribe was about originally, not if it is simply being used for another reason.

 @9TVP5KJ from Texas  answered…2yrs2Y

I feel that the amount of emphasis placed on it should be reduced, but it is never a bad thing to aknowledge those who came before us.

 @9TRD4HS from California  answered…2yrs2Y

Acknowledging the history of the land, and how we got it, is important but how does it really help anyone to just point out that fact and make generalized apologetic statements but take no action. Most if not all of the land owned by countries today was taken from another country/people at some point or another(the morality of this is a different topic). And these land were not just seized by 'colonial powers' but also taken after the United States was formed (and had it's independence) by the United States.

 @BDXHCHJ from Georgia  answered…2wks2W

i feel like efforts would be better in trying to make indigenous people feel like welcomed members of American society while still holding on to their own identities as sovereign nations my concern with things like this is we make native people feel like relics of a past time instead of thriving people

 @BDXH46F from Virginia  answered…2wks2W

Land acknowledgments do not change the relations of production

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