Example Sentences

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“Acknowledging the ceded and unceded land on which we all stand could not be more important in our current historical moment,” the statement reads.

From Washington Times • Jul. 14, 2022

Sandra Louis is a self-taught farmer on Gabriola Island in BC Canada and the creator behind On Our Farms, a medicinal herb farm located on seven acres of unceded indigenous lands on Gabriola Island.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2022

For more than a century, the Pacheedaht have witnessed colonial extraction of the forests in their unceded territory.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2022

She has created scripts recommending people not only acknowledge Indigenous Australians but also their unceded sovereignty and the Uluru Statement.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2021

When they forbid an unceded jurisdiction to be exercised within their territory by foreign agents, he undertakes to uphold that exercise, and to avow it openly.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson