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Originally Posted by rubecube
Where is this happening? I'm personally not a huge fan of territory acknowledgements for a number of reasons, but if you think they're being done as an apology then you're missing the point.
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I'm not missing the point at all. There are layers of meaning in land acknowledgements and the layer that bothers me the most is the one where my kids need to implicitly apologize for existing on land that is not their own. This isn't their home; they're interlopers. They have to thank people from hundreds of years ago for "allowing" them on
their land, even though that "permission" comes with a never-ending guilt trip. I think it's unhealthy for young people and certainly unfair.
Sorry, these are children. They shouldn't have to 'acknowledge' somebody else's former ownership of land just to exist.