Land Acknowledgments Aren’t Just Woke, They’re Right

At events in today’s woker spaces, it has become conventional to start things off by publicly noting that the land where the event is taking place was once inhabited by a certain Native American group (or groups). I’m not a fan of what’s been called Woke 1, but I think the land acknowledgments are wonderful.

Statements often also say that the original inhabitants were parted from their land by treachery, violence and European disease, and also note that their descendants survive and remain stewards of the land.

Events at Yale University, for example, sometimes begin with this........

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