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A land acknowledgement (or territorial acknowledgement) is a formal statement that acknowledges the Indigenous peoples of the land. It may be in written form, or be spoken at the beginning of public events. The custom of land acknowledgement is present in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and more recently in the United States. [1]
Mar. 15—As Boulder works to craft land acknowledgments, some emphasized that it's simply the first step in honoring Indigenous people and recognizing their forced and often violent removal from ...
Warren was the first town in Rhode Island to adopt a land acknowledgement statement, followed by Barrington and South Kingstown. 3 Rhode Island towns adopt 'land acknowledgements' honoring Native ...
Land acknowledgements read at public meetings are to recognize and appreciate Indigenous people as original stewards of the land, a tribe leader said. 'Overstepping.' Plymouth town committee makes ...
Prior to 1946, Native American land claims were explicitly barred from Claims Courts by statute. [116] The Indian Claims Commission Act of 1946 (ICCA) created forum of Indian land claims before the Indian Claims Commission (subsequently merged into the United States Court of Claims, and then the United States Court of Federal Claims).
Indian land claims were one of the key reasons the Bureau of Indian Affairs established its administrative Federal Acknowledgment Process in 1978. The Commission was adjourned in 1978 by Public Law 94-465, [ 3 ] which terminated the Commission and transferred its pending docket of 170 cases to the United States Court of Claims on September 30 ...
Protest at Glen Cove sacred burial site. The Recognition of Native American sacred sites in the United States could be described as "specific, discrete, narrowly delineated location on Federal land that is identified by an Indian tribe, or Indian individual determined to be an appropriately authoritative representative of an Indian religion, as sacred by virtue of its established religious ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the largest land return in California history, declaring his support for the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ...