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These acknowledgements ignore the fact that most of the habitable land on this planet has been taken by conquest.
Does this mean the Romans still own Britain, France, Spain and the Mediterranean?
Natives are only important if they’re non-whites. Look at England.
The Indian tribes were constantly at war with each other, and most were nomadic or semi-nomadic. What the modern wokesters recognize as the original, aboriginal claims of first occupancy are actually derived from the travel journals of the first people of European descent who noted what Indian tribe was there when the first white explorers reached the area.
I.e., all such Native American land claims were assigned originally by White explorers and mappers. And many of the earliest stories we have of the tribes’ ancestral folk memories (which were themselves written down when white men arrived on the scene, so they are already selected and translated by outsiders) speak of the tribes’ long wanderings before they reached their current spot. As do, just for the record, the Jews’ origin story, which has Abraham coming out of Ur, but in that case, the Israelites at least wrote it down for themselves during the Babylonian captivity, when the oral tradition gave way to a written account.
In some parts of the world, Arab or Chinese explorers may have been the first literate recorders in a given region. But the principle is the same.
There are no true indigenous people in the Americas.
What we call Native Americans or indigenous were just here first during the ice age. Granted it was a very long time ago, but they are not indigenous in the true sense of the word.
I think Canada has it right by calling them First Nations. They were here first, but not native.
Maybe Sheridan can whip up a series about it.
OK, let's give it back. You first. Give all university land back to the "Anikituwagi" - clear it off first and make sure it is in the same condition as when it was "colonized."
Ditto for anyone making such statement - give the "colonized" land your home is on back to whatever respective tribe you think still owns it. Otherwise you are an evil colonist who stole land from noble tribes who were here first.
Show us how to do it.
Here’s my land acknowledgement.
“I own a house, it’s mine and you can’t have it.”
Bkmk