#landacknowledgement — Public Fediverse posts

I acknowledge the land I am posting from is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples, covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.

#LandAcknowledgement #Toronto

Humorous response from four First Nations on Vancouver Island to a Conservative MP. One of the best ways to respond to ignorance and bigotry.

#Indigenous #LandAcknowledgement #VancouverIsland

*Edit: typo

“A helpful rule of thumb is this: a land acknowledgement is most defensible when the event exercises public voice or authority, connects to place or community, and is open to real Indigenous participation or follow-through. If all three are present, the practice is usually justified. If none are, it is usually not.”
#landacknowledgement

https://khelsilem.substack.com/p/understanding-the-purpose-limits

Our art comes from the Italian Renaissance but every one of our performances has been on lands originally settled by the indigenous peoples of North America. Our art was imported from Europe but we can never forget the cultures displaced and disrupted during European conquest. We must always remember the past and and give thanks to their stewardship of the lands we have staged our performances upon:

➤Adena
➤Anishinabewaki
➤Bodéwadmiakiwen (Potawatomi)
➤Erie
➤Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (Haudenosaunee)
➤Hopewell
➤Kaskaskia
➤Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo)
➤Mascogo
➤Meškwahki·aša·hina (Fox)
➤Miccosukee
➤Mississauga
➤Mohican
➤Monongahela Culture
➤Myaamia
➤Očhéthi Šakówiŋ
➤Odawa
➤Osage
➤Peoria
➤Sauk & Meskwaki
➤Seminole
➤Shawandasse Tula (Shawanwaki/Shawnee)
➤Susquehannock
➤Timucua
➤Tocobaga
➤Wenrohronon

Use this mapping tool to explore more: https://native-land.ca/

#LandAcknowledgement #GiveThanks #Theater

I just finished putting together my #LandAcknowledgement, which is also an action plan because of what I learned at the Native Governance Center (https://nativegov.org/news/beyond-land-acknowledgment-guide/).

A quote by the Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation gives me hope that my actions might make a difference: “Any action we take has the potential to ripple out and affect so many others, through time, without us ever even being aware of it.” https://www.wishtoyo.org/first-nations-ecological-conservation-alliance

The #LandAcknowledgment & Action Plan are at my website: http://corinalogan.com (scroll down). It will also go in my articles that use data from this population of grackles.

It took lots of learning to get to the point of having a finished statement. I share my process here in the hopes that it inspires you to do this as well!

My process...I read about #LandAcknowledgments & saw examples. I like the Native Governance Center's advice, so I followed their steps
https://nativegov.org/news/beyond-land-acknowledgment-guide
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#DavidShaneLowry Calls for More Than a #LandAcknowledgement in Talk Hosted by Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology

by Christian Estrada and Tayla Stempson
Oct 18, 2024

"On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology hosted a talk by David Shane Lowry, a member of the #Lumbee Tribe and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine. His discussion centered on settler #colonialism, the #LandBack movement, and the importance of returning #IndigenousLands to their original owners.

"In an interview with The Phillipian, Lowry urged students to grapple with #IndigenousHistory in the current era, not just the past. He expressed his hopes for Andover students not to shy away from uncomfortable situations.

"'You have to make Native and Indigenous peoples part of today. They can’t merely be part of events/politics/wars in the past. Every experience that you all at PA have with your local and national community ought to be to work to reverse the realities that allow you to live comfortably outside of relationships with Native and Indigenous peoples,' wrote Lowry in an email to The Phillipian."

Read more:
https://phillipian.net/2024/10/18/david-shane-lowry-calls-for-more-than-a-land-acknowledgement-in-talk-hosted-by-robert-s-peabody-institute-of-archeology/
#IndigenousEducators #LandBack #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices

No matter how we got here,
We find our self's in the occupied territories of turtle island. And despite the proclamations of the enlightened empire, we each have a choice to make. Do the work of colonialism, or act like we live here.

#landback #landacknowledgement #manifesto #creativewriting #uspol #cc #animism #permaculture

It made me smile to read the #LandAcknowledgement on #ZeroTheCat's Website.

I've been so impressed by some of the websites that my British Columbia Institute of Technology students built this past Term, a wonderful mix of creative, funny, thought provoking, and forward thinking.

For a smile and a little more light in your day, go for a ramble with Zero: https://zerothecat.ca/

#BCIT #StoryToGo

@AndGraceToo
About "Our home ON native land":
Has there been a public conversation this year about changing the anthem to your wishes?

#OurHomeOnNativeLand #Canada #NationalAnthem #LandAcknowledgement

My heart is full -- just met with the Tokyo #EnglishforActivists group, people I have known for over a decade. Wonderful people, nearly all women, active in anti-nuclear, anti-domestic violence, human rights, workers rights, cooperative, women's rights and other movements. We talked about #Gaza, #pronouns, #LandAcknowledgement
It was fun to see some people trying on "they" for the first time. 💓

Several Native American tribes once occupied land now part of Ann Arbor Public Schools

#LandAcknowledgement

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2023/10/several-native-american-tribes-once-occupied-land-now-part-of-ann-arbor-public-schools.html

good morning from the indigenous land of Bodwéwadmi (Potawatomi)

#LandAcknowledgement #indigenouspeoplesday

Baroness Von Sketch perfectly illustrating the ridiculousness of most land acknowledgments. #Indigedon #LandAcknowledgement #Comedy #BaronessVonSketchShow #Indigenous #IndigenousMastodon #colonialism #Colonization #ComedySketch #CBC

As if settler colonizers weren't already detached from any responsibility to build meaningful relationships to Indigenous Peoples whose lands they're occupying, they now have a number they can text to find out whose lands they're on to do a #LandAcknowledgement. Fuck your digitized and analogue allyship performances. #LandBack #AntiColonial #AccomplicesNotAllies

(from the Indigenous Action Facebook page)

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #TreatyBeforeVoice #VoiceToParliament

Welcome to the rebuilt kostyn.ca. As part of raising my blog from the dead, I am committing to posting land acknowledgments as part of an on-going, anti-colonial writing practice. This practice is inspired by the on-going anti-racism work we do on the OPIRG Brock Board where each member is asked to write/re-write/recite/re-recite their own land acknowledgment on a rotating basis for our meetings and other gatherings. I hope for this to be the first of many Land Acknowledgments to come, and acts as a part of my contribution to the polishing of the Covenant Chain.

My name is Kostyn, my pronouns are he/they. Where I’m writing from today in so-called St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada is traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, Wendat and Chonnonton peoples. I was born in this city and raised between here, and the countryside to the East. All of this territory is covered by Upper Canada Treaties, particularly, the “Between the Lakes Purchase,” also known as, “Treaty 3,” (but not that “Treaty 3”) the “Niagara Purchase,” known as “Treaty 381,” and is within the land protected by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum agreement. I encourage you to read the surprisingly accessible treaties for this land if you’re here, or finding out Whose.land you’re on with this wildly useful resource.

I want to use this acknowledgment to talk about my ancestral relationship to settler colonialism and this region (Niagara, Ontario), and to encourage you all to do the same wherever you find yourself.

Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit, and Metis – though they are more recent) have lived, loved, rejoiced, and made community in Niagara long before, all throughout, and hopefully will continue to do so well after my life. Via the global (though not all-powerful) systems of colonialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and extractivism – which ancestors of mine helped to usher in (including a colonizer-poet who advocated for a Canadian nation-state with genocidal fervor years before Confederation) – this land was made appealing to and safe for people like my immigrant Great Grandfather. In the early 20th century, he fled Bukovina to work in a coalmine in Alberta, before moving to Niagara.

By the end of my great grandfather’s life, Canadian society’s perception of his identity shifted from seeing him as a poor immigrant-settler “Uke,” to a white man, a mythical racial category through which the ruling classes opportunistically expand and reduce who is and isn’t considered to be, like them, supreme and most human. His son, my grandfather, then became wealthy thanks to his willingness to work against (or shocking ignorance towards) working class solidarity, and his inherited designation as “white.” From contributing to the white supremacist mythology of Canada, to literally taking coal out of the land, and buying an education thanks to substantial inter-generational wealth, my ancestors and I both benefit from and contribute to on-going settler colonialism.

The complicated story of how each of us got to be where we are today, must simultaneously ground and unsettle our lives. As an advocate for environmental justice, and one who is dedicated therefore to the struggles against colonialism, capitalism, extractivism, and all other forms of oppression, I want to emphasize that to do good environmental justice work requires a careful balance of loving the land, lakes, sandy soil, plants, fungi, fellow animals, and countless other creatures, taking care of ourselves, as well as pushing ourselves to be accountable, changeable, yet steadfast in our material commitment to anti-colonial, anti-racist, and antifascist work.

Those of you who have access to the material resources to do so, I encourage you to donate to the Niikinaaganaa Foundation at payyourrent.ca which builds and helps to sustain sustain Indigenous communities and flourishing.

#land-acknowledgement #niagara #ontario #st-catharines #whiteness

https://kostyn.ca/2023/08/07/land-acknowledgement-version-1-0/

I live on the stolen ancestral territory of the Anishinaabeg and the Haudenosaunee. This land is being systematically destroyed by settlers who do not respect the land, the people, or the treaties. It is all of our responsibility to protect this land and water for all our relations who share it with us, as well as for future generations. When habitat is destroyed, the future is stolen from our descendants. #LandAcknowledgment #LandAcknowledgement #LandBack #Indigenous

I’m tired of land acknowledgments. I’m tired of people saying they live on stolen land. I’m tired of them saying they acknowledge this as an act of reconciliation. That’s not reconciliation. That’s rubbing it in. If they want it to mean anything, they should include what they are doing to fight colonialism. At the very least they could make their services affordable for Indigenous Peoples. #LandBack #Indigenous #LandAcknowledgement #colonialism

#LandAcknowledgement

I acknowledge that within London, Ontario, the land on which I live and work is the traditional and unceded territory of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Attawandaron First Nation peoples.

I was born in the City of St. Catharines, the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe First Nation peoples.

This land acknowledgement is essential: it reminds us that our excellent standard of living is directly related to the resources and friendship of Indigenous people in our community – and indeed across the nations.

A Land Acknowledgement for the Internet

For many years I have sought to push back against treatment of the internet as a “space” — simply: to do so is a category error because it is a domain of speech, unlike the more normal military/political operational domains such as air, sea, sky, land, and space.

Thus: the “cyberspace” has always been a bad metaphor because it implies that it can be policed in much the same way as a city; equally “information superhighway” was always bad, and folk who talk about “cutting off from the Internet” in pursuit of political goals, clearly think in terms of trade not communication.

Oh, and “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace?” — it’s really kinda cringe, but mostly for the non-obvious reason of giving people something pointlessly libertarian to push back against when instead they would probably be a lot more sympathetic towards “A Treatise Upon How The Internet Can Bring People Together For Good Or Ill.”

But: however poorly founded, space is clearly a popular frame for consideration of the Internet, and ChatGPT has given us all the opportunity to query a technically-competent ingénue for their opinion. So I threw it a prompt:

Imagine that you are a new Internet user – or indeed an Artificial Intelligence. Compose a heartfelt Land Acknowledgement outlining the history of the Internet and the (now largely unused and forgotten) rich and diverse communication protocols upon which it was founded, paying respect to the elders who created those protocols, and recognising (perhaps citing a few examples?) some of the communities which have previously existed on the internet. Explain how you will behave in order to respect their traditional cultural norms of “netiquette” (explaining what that means), free speech, and respectful yet forthright discussion.

…and here is the first and only result which I sought. There has been no attempt to tweak it, and it’s interesting to see use of “the lands on which” being employed, which are perhaps better considered as “cyber lands” or something.

It might provide a useful template for your next essay or diatribe about Internet “culture”.

A Land Acknowledgement for the Internet

As a new Internet user, I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the lands on which the Internet was created, developed and continues to expand. The Internet has its roots in the work of many elders, who created and maintained various communication protocols, such as ARPANET, which formed the basis of what we know today as the Internet.

We acknowledge the rich and diverse history of communication protocols, such as Gopher, Usenet, IRC, and many others, which have played a crucial role in shaping the Internet as we know it today. We honor the work of those who created and maintained these protocols, recognizing their contribution to the development of the Internet and the global communication networks.

We recognize that the Internet has historically been a space for diverse communities to connect, exchange ideas and collaborate. These communities have included online forums, chat rooms, mailing lists, and more, which have facilitated communication between people across different countries, cultures and backgrounds.

To respect the traditional cultural norms of “netiquette,” we will strive to engage in respectful and responsible communication online. This means treating others with kindness, avoiding offensive or hurtful language, and being mindful of the impact of our words and actions on others.

At the same time, we also recognize the importance of free speech and the exchange of diverse ideas, which have been fundamental to the growth of the Internet. We will strive to engage in respectful yet forthright discussions, acknowledging the perspectives and experiences of others while expressing our own views.

In conclusion, we acknowledge the rich history of the Internet and the diverse communities that have existed on it. We commit to engaging in respectful and responsible communication online, while also recognizing the importance of free speech and the exchange of diverse ideas.

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#internet #internet-freedom #land-acknowledgement

https://alecmuffett.com/article/54282

On the topic of #LandAcknowledgement (see https://nelson.social/@matt/109741407158500402) this is an amazing resource: https://native-land.ca/

Jully Black changed the lyrics of our national anthem from "Our home and native land" to "Our home ON native land" & personally, I love it. I'm definitely good with permanently changing it.
#Canada #NationalAnthem #JullyBlack #OCanada #LandAcknowledgement

Practicing #RadicalWelcome #PCUSA #ModeratorConference #LandAcknowledgement