Former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett kicked off the groundbreaking ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center on Thursday with a land acknowledgment, citing the Native American tribes historically rooted to the site.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) opened its summer meeting Monday in Minneapolis, MN, with a land acknowledgement recognizing the Dakota people as “the original stewards of the lands and waters” of the region.
Dancer and singer Julianne Hough delivered a woke “land acknowledgment” while on the red carpet at the Academy Awards on Sunday, leading to mass mockery on social media. “Land acknowledgments don’t mean anything unless you are prepared to hand back the land,” one viewer commented, adding, “It is performative crap. Insulting for indigenous people, nauseating for the rest of us.”
Pop star Taylor Swift opened her concert in Toronto with a massive “land acknowledgment” notice flashed across the giant stage screen.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that if we were going to do a land acknowledgment in Israel like people do for Native American land in the U.S., they would acknowledge the land belongs to
Medical students at the University of Minnesota pledged to “honor all indigenous ways of healing historically marginalized by Western medicine” and fight “white supremacy, colonialism, gender binary, ableism and all forms of oppression.”
A University of Washington professor is suing the school after the administration punished him for not including a Native American “land acknowledgement” in his class syllabus.
A professor is suing the University of Washington (UW) after administrators punished him for refusing to echo the school’s woke leftist claim that the campus sits on “occupied land” that once belonged to indians, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights (FIRE). According to professor Stuart Reges, “Land acknowledgments are performative acts of conformity that should be resisted, even if it lands you in court.”
