They’re fucking passive. They should directly implicate the US. Instead of “We are on unceded land of the Salish people” we should say “The US government stole this land from the Salish people and genocided their tribe”
They’re fucking passive. They should directly implicate the US. Instead of “We are on unceded land of the Salish people” we should say “The US government stole this land from the Salish people and genocided their tribe”
The problem with them is that they’re bullshit. We have them here in Australia “We recognise that this is the land of XYZ”
No you don’t. You haven’t given those people any legal right over their land. You might as well be saying nothing.
Yeah each one should at least come with “we donated x% of our proceeds from this to [the tribe]” or whatever. Something actually tangible. Otherwise it’s just, and we all know this to be true of course, self righteous lip service
It’s actually worse than saying nothing, it’s basically sarcastic and kicking them while they’re down
“Oh yeah? You want your land back? Well too bad”
Aw well, bud, seems like you ain’t a fella Canuck?
Well, I stay by your statement: land acknowledgements are, at best, useless, if not patronizing…