Cultural Heritage: Native American: Land Acknowledgement

Land Acknowledgments are not a substitute for actions in support of social justice initiatives. A Land Acknowledgment can be the opening of a conversation not an ending.

• "Academic Land Acknowledgement for Settler Scholars: A Guest Post by Dr. Eugenia Zuroski", on Graduate and Early Career Caucus, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
• Acknowledging Native Lands in The Corvallis Advocate featuring Luhui Whitebear, Center Director, Kaku-Ixt Mana Ina Haws and Assistant Professor
• "What are land acknowledgements and why do they matter?" and "Land acknowledgements are a good first step, but there’s a lot more work to be done" by indigenous writer Selena Mills
• "Why Land Acknowledgments Matter" by Chip Colwell, founding editor-in-chief of SAPIENS
• Indigenous Land and Territorial Acknowledgements for Institutions, landacknowledgements.org.
• Guide to Indigenous Land and Territorial Acknowledgements for Cultural Institutions Developed by: Felicia Garcia (Chumash), M.A. Museum Studies, New York University, 2018 with Jane Anderson, Museum Studies, New York University.
• "'I regret it': Hayden King on writing Ryerson University's territorial acknowledgement" by Hayden King, an Anishinaabe writer and educator who works at Ryerson University
• "Are you planning to do a Land Acknowledgment?" American Indians in Children's Literature March 2019 blog post
• "Land-grab universities: Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system" by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone
• ‘Land Acknowledgments’ Are Just Moral Exhibitionism by Graeme Wood in The Atlantic

Citation formats do not have a format for Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers; NorQuest College Library developed a citation style in the spirit of wahkôhtowin and reconciliation:

• Unlike most other personal communications, Elders and Knowledge Keepers should be cited in-text and in the reference list.
• The citation format for the reference list follows the following format:
  • Last name, First name., Nation/Community. Treaty Territory if applicable. City/Community they live in if applicable. Topic/subject of communication if applicable. Date Month Year. 
  • Cardinal, Delores., Goodfish Lake Cree Nation. Treaty 6. Lives in Edmonton. Oral teaching. 4 April 2004. 

Note: If you would like to approach an Elder or Knowledge Keeper for teachings, remember to follow protocol or if you are unsure what their protocol is, please ask them ahead of time.