#HonorNativeLand

This video accompanies #HonorNativeLand-a guide and call-to-action to spread the practice of acknowledgment of traditional Native lands at the opening of all public gatherings.
*We call on all individuals and organizations to open public events and gatherings with acknowledgment of the traditional Native inhabitants of the land.*
Acknowledgment is a simple, powerful way of showing respect and a step toward correcting the stories and practices that erase Indigenous people’s history and culture and toward inviting and honoring the truth.
Visit www.usdac.us/nativeland to: download the Guide with step-by-step instructions for how to offer acknowledgement and tips for moving beyond acknowledgment into action; download #HonorNativeLand signs to print, customize, and post in your community; and take the pledge to commit publicly to practicing traditional Native land acknowledgment.

[@jolleysneckculturalmapping2048]

XELI ONKUNTUWAKAN WEMI LENAPEHOKINK! Many Blessings from Lenapehokink! Wanishi! Thank You!

[@andrealacanela540]

I'm living on indigenous Miwok Territory, specifically the Omi-Omi tribe. My concern about pesticides, weedkillers & artificial fertilizers going into the ponds, wetlands & canals and causing toxic blooms is coming into focus. I joined Pachamama Alliance last summer & now working towards a community action project. I'm getting educated about local water & the land's history & it's people. I've been an environmentalist for 50 years and Standing Rock movement grabbed my heart.

[@earth2386]

I acknowledge the traditional Native inhabitants of the land. Thank you for the wonderful people in this piece who took the time to speak and share their thoughts.

[@EmilyPresents]

This is beautiful. I experienced my first meeting that opened with a land acknowledgement just a few weeks ago. I was stunned by its humanity and its simplicity. I will do everything I can to open meetings and events by doing land acknowledgments.

[@adamwyker4800]

Makes you feel good huh? Holy sh*t this is embarrassing...

[@NC4E]

​@@adamwyker4800 The natives said it means something to them. By the way this video is part of anthropology courses across the nation, so you've immortalized the ugliest part of you in front of the greater educated part of our society for however long this stays up. That's embarrassing.

[@annemilligan5169]

Love and appreciate this so much.

[@TRACELHENTZ]

Greetings and AQUAY from Pocumtuckland in Massachusetts

[@hggazerk3395]

love it

[@vazak11]

Powerful!

[@galactic904]

In a big way, I want to understand the rights of Natives to their lands, fine. But what I can't wrap my head around is the reality of modern living today, which is backed up not only by colonialist powers of laws and regulations of let's say of the 17th-18th centuries but by humanity's new scientific discoveries, achievements, and international adoptions by billions of people today. So the questions are many. How can aboriginal land chiefs keep playing a complementary role in the progress of not only from a few colonialist that are using the lands for commercial resources, manufacturing all our products, and keep some kind of Rights to some of their lands without stopping/slowing some of the progress that the new scienced have established upon humanity? I'm saying this knowing full well that big regions of lands should be kept for conservation reasons, hunting and fishing rights for natives continues. However, I say that many cities should give some of their lands, inside and around city borders to Native communities. Public schools and private ones, and Colleges funded by all Canadians. In a generation or 2, evolution will take its former place, and let the chips fall where they may.

[@CCDR07]

Good questions, but I think my first question as one who grew up as a white prairie kid, mainly ignorant of the indigenous cultures that existed previously where I lived, is what is this "progress that the new sciences [enable]'" for? And who or what directs it or steers this progress one way or another? I think land acknowledgments and turn towards Indigenous cultures help spur us to seek answers to these questions. What does western society do all this for? What it feels like to me (in regards to both the inequality and injustice present in the world, and the rife environmental destruction) is that Western society is blindly trying to climb all over itself up some kind of imagined ladder, while ignorantly destroying more and more of the natural world (biodiversity and ecosystems) and replacing it with human beings (not necessarily happy or healthy ones either). Here, I think Indigenous people, knowledge, worldviews, and traditions might be able to offer western cultures some advice and wisdom in regards to fostering worldviews, social institutions, and ceremonies that can help maintain harmonious relationships with each other and to the rest of nature over the long term...

[@stanvans3214]

you're gonna need to complete thousands of years of world history research on every piece of land ever. possibly even lands that are now underwater, so as to provide justice to those who lost their lands to climate change! i'm offended that you didn't think of this!!!!

[@Advocata]

The Native Americans that lived where I live when the Europeans got on the scene had already been driven from their ancestral lands by another tribe and were being forced to pay tribute (in wampum & fish) to another Native American tribe. Do I have to recognize the natives that were there when the whites showed up or the other natives that they had to pay taxes to? Which tribe do I recognize when I visit their old land they had before they were forced out? And before you call me a bigot, remember I actually took the time to learn about the history of this place before the white people showed up and not just what it was like when they got here.

[@CCDR07]

Well, since you took the time to learn that history, why not recognize the roles that both tribes played in shaping (and being shaped by that land) previous to European settlers? Why not recognize the existence of alternative ways of being in the world, alternative worldviews and values/ideologies whose models of governance maintained and shaped that landscape sustainably for 1000s of years. Mainstream, globalized society is busy pushing us ever closer to the ecological boundaries of the planet. Why not seek out and acknowledge alternative worldviews and the kinds of social institutions and governance structures that they gave rise to?

[@rvt_h3d]

@Karma Chameleon 🤡

[@sifins1579]

#HonorMyDick

[@marluabarca7390]

WHO disliked this video!??

[@SumDummy]

I did, because it is utter nonsense.

[@thomabb]

So if I buy a property from a foreclosure auction and find out the previous owners are Canadian, should I put an "Indigenous Land Acknowledgement" sign in my yard?

[@whateverforever3785]

I wonder whose land it REALLY is. I mean Native Americans were not any more civilized than Europeans. Stronger tribes took land from weaker tribes, let's also keep in mind Indian tribes like the Cherokees owned African slaves and used their labor to build their reservations.

[@ee.es00]

They were much less civilized. Human sacrifice and cannabalism in many tribes in america.

[@poopooliquid5627]

Cheeseballs

[@allmight5465]

Yes

[@hitoshishinso7997]

@@allmight5465 *le gAsP* all might

[@adamwyker4800]

Yeah, no... Whichever tribe you acknowledge, they no doubt took it from a previous tribe. You’ll see this same pattern when you look at the people and lands of PLANET EARTH! Consider the tiny number of Indians found throughout the millions of square miles in what was eventually discovered, settled, and developed into the greatest nation on earth. It’s not many, but despite low overall numbers, the relative number of distinct, warring, separate tribes is remarkable. Altruistic tribes existed and some were indispensable to the European settlers. The vast majority were hostile not just to Europeans but to everyone else. The sadism, slavery, torture, rape, and general savagery made the Indians enemies. The savage label wasn’t pulled from thin air or because of muh racismings. These were nomadic people that were still in the Stone Age. They were fierce warriors that fought for centuries, but ultimately lost. BTW, how many conquered people in history were granted reservations? Most were wiped out entirely, not given land and concessions... So no, it’s not (insert Indian) land. Sorry not sorry.

[@TheMetalCaveZineMedia505]

The Pueblos were sedentary people and were the first to settle the Southwest and have been here for millennia despite attacks from Apache and Navajo, and eventually the Spanish; therefore we have legitimate land claims being that we built the first settled society here - your ignorance and awareness of history is laughable, if not outright pitiful and embarrassing, no?

[@CCDR07]

I think your portrayal of human nature as one that is primarily imperialistic, selfish, and lacking an evolved in-built sense of ethics, fairness, and equity is unfortunately common in our Western society (not a coincidence given our role as brutal colonizer and usurper of land), but this is an indescribably limited view of reality and ourselves. For one, human-"nature" is a continual work in progress... There have been many types of people, and many types of cultures, worldviews, and levels of self-organization thorughout our short 300 thousand year history as a "species". Humans are incredibly malleable/adaptive in this regard (sometimes incredibly mal-adaptive, as mother-nature and time ultimately determine ). Perhaps, it's not a coincidence that the cultures and worldviews that have developed the last few hundred years of extractive technology and imperialistic expansion are also the ones that at the same time are leading modern-globalized society closer and closer to the ecological boundaries of earth's life systems). Hopefully, we can expand our awareness of history beyond the limited view you espouse here, to better learn from the mistakes of our recent past and modern times.

[@adamwyker4800]

@@TheMetalCaveZineMedia505 my replies keep getting deleted instantly despite containing zero profanities or personal attacks…typical

[@tenbumaka7899]

@@adamwyker4800That's crazy I wonder why ? it's not like your taking the stance of a genocide apologist or anything, oh wait...

[@annsawyer5684]

"granted reservations" and "given "land". that's like saying if I came over to your house and took all your stuff, and then gave you back a baseball mitt and your tv remote I will have really done you a solid, and you should be grateful. furthermore, you'll have to stand by and watch me misuse your stuff, wreck it, poison your iguana and dog, and ask you to agree that's progress. oh yes, and I'll force all your kids to learn my language to such an extent that yours will cease to exist. you know what? you're right. we're pretty kickass (not, in case you don't catch the sarcasm).

[@madraven07]

With all due respect to First Nations’ people, there’s a whiff of Trojan horse in all these endless land acknowledgement goings-on. My allegiance is to a Canada that was federated by act of parliament and is a sovereign nation in the world. First Nations’ people are part of that confederation (as are we all), not the other way around.

[@terrencesims5917]

These 5 dollar Indians r funny

[@hitoshishinso7997]

hm?

[@jodyrich4992]

This a powerful message idiot