Misconceptions around Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome to Country persist. Many people do not understand what they are, how they are different or why they are practised.
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Land acknowledgments state that activities are taking place on land previously owned by Indigenous peoples. They’re popular – but they may harm more than they heal, say three anthropologists.
Land Defenders from Six Nations occupied a disputed land to highlight the fact that Canadians have a long way to go when it comes to learning what land acknowledgements are supposed to teach us.
An anthropologist who’s researched the dispossession of Native Americans and their enduring connections to ancestral places sees the value in asking ‘whose land are you on?’
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Assistant Professor, McMaster University
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Professor of Anthropology & Director for Undergraduate Research, College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University
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Associate Professor of African Studies and Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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President of the Association of Indigenous Anthropologists; Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Senior Lecturer and Academic Lead; College for First Nations, University of Southern Queensland
