land acknowledgment
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Indigenous tribes whose ancestral home includes Nevada’s high desert have derided “City,” which now includes a land acknowledgment on its website.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
There is a passing equivalent to a land acknowledgment when a group of academics come and ask to look in the house’s backyard for Native artifacts.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2024
After UW’s Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering suggested that professors put a land acknowledgment in their syllabi, Reges responded by crafting his own acknowledgment.
From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024
The speakers included a Native American elder giving a land acknowledgment and former presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich.
From Slate • Oct. 10, 2023
One way to think of “Fire of Love,” then, is as its own kind of land acknowledgment, one that asks us to consider the Earth and reckon with its great and terrible mysteries.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2022
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