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Because that wording is used in the land acknowledgement that I'm most familiar with: > I/We acknowledge that the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire occupies t
by waffle_ss 6y ago
Because that wording is used in the land acknowledgement that I'm most familiar with:
> I/We acknowledge that the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire occupies the sacred and ancestral lands of Indigenous Peoples. I/We honor the land of the Ojibwe and Dakota Nations.
The posted website specifically calls out the map's purpose in fueling land acknowledgments,[1] so my comment is exactly on-topic for the posted content.
I purposefully didn't take the topic into flamebait territory with some parallels I could draw to growing anti-white animus with certain slurs that are tied to that (and other) words.
[1]: https://www.whose.land/en/whyacknowledge https://www.whose.land/en/whyacknowledge
- dang 6y agoI disagree. I think that you gratuitously inflamed the thread in a way that the posted website was careful not to do. That's explicitly against the site guidelines. The link you've made is tenuous and frankly looks retrofitted—parallel construction, one might say. Reducing an interesting post to a well-rehearsed flamewar is vandalism and against the site guidelines. This is supposed to be a place for curious conversation. I think there's plenty of curious conversation to be about the indigenous history of North America as long as people don't toss bombs about "growing anti-white animus". No one used the words you're complaining about until you did. That's a remarkably poor level of HN post. Please don't do that again.