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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.
I am having some difficulty understanding you, but I'm interested to get your point. Can you rephrase this perhaps?
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.
I feel there is a lot of virtue signalling going on here, lots of acknowledgements in emails and when meetings are started but when it comes to financing real solutions there are boatloads of crickets
IMO the problem is not really what happened in the past -- we don't tend to bother fighting for justice for peoples that were completely wiped out. It's the ongoing problems that are what really matters. Land acknowledgments are a proxy for this, but an schelling-effective one; one that people can rally around.