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I love the land acknowledgements. That one is the opposite of “woke,” it’s just telling the truth, gently and repeatedly. My home sits on Dakota and Anishinaabe land. That’s the truth.[/quote]

No, it is not the truth.      Your home currently sits on US (or possibly Canadian) land.       There was a time in the past when Dakota or Anishinaabe-speaking people lived on the land.     They almost certainly conquered other peoples to get that land.     Civilizations constantly come and go -- in Europe, Asia, and Africa as well as North America.

And why should we constantly repeat the fact that Anishinaabe people formerly lived on the land?    Why not gently and repeatedly state the fact that the Anishinaabe practiced cannibalism, sometimes boiling and eating their foes after battles?     (   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anishinaabe)   These are both facts that we should study in history class.   There is no need to make either into a quasi-religious incantation.[/quote]
Thanks for proving my point about why I love the land acknowledgements.  :lol: [/quote]

Fine, you do your religious incantations and I'll do mine.  Just don't make me do yours.     :) [/quote]

Pointing out that a building occupies land from which a population was genocided is not a “religious incantation,” it’s the truth no matter how you try to obfuscate (and try to share scary facts like I didn’t already know them? Do you think no one reads books?).   [/quote]

If it is just a fact, then why would you have to say it before every meeting?    You know about the cannibalism (and the wars) of the Anishinaabe, but for some reason don't you want to state this fact before every meeting.

Should meetings in England begin by stating that they are on land previously occupied by the Normans, and previous to that by the Anglo-Saxons, and previous to that by the Romans, and previous to that by the Celts?     All these groups gained their land through extremely violent wars.

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