In the 2019-20 school year, when students at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University crafted and urged official passage of a statement acknowledging that the school lay on former native lands in Nashville, ...

Some Indigenous scholars have come to regard the standard land acknowledgment as “hollow” and “not enough.” To better understand how a land acknowledgment should be folded into more comprehensive ...

In response to a letter from Randy Griffin published on Dec. 11, where he criticized the City Council’s decision to recite a Land Acknowledgment, here is my critique of his critique. Mr. Griffin ...

These days, land or territory acknowledgments are increasingly common, often made at the outset of public gatherings. In our industry, where we are reliant on a strong connection to the land and ...

"[I]n the public university setting, student disagreement with a professor's academic speech on an issue of public concern cannot alter the Pickering analysis in the government's favor." A short ...

Earlier this year, members of the San Jose City Council in California stood and recited the pledge of allegiance. Minutes later, Glorida Arellano-Gomez, councilwoman for the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe in ...

Every tutorial class in a particular subject starts with an Acknowledgment of Country. The spiel runs for about 30 seconds, offering the student time to scroll his social media before settling into ...

CU Boulder recently introduced a campus land acknowledgment, reflecting on its own difficult origin story and founding in 1876 on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Arapaho, ...

An acknowledgment is a witnessed signature made by a person signing a formal document. This document is typically a deed, mortgage, or last will. The witness to the signature of the document at hand ...

With January now in the rearview mirror, many charities have wrapped up their gift acknowledgment letters for 2021, thanking donors for their generosity and assisting them with their preparations for ...