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A Call to Action-Oriented Land Acknowledgments in CBGL
As a Community-Based Global Learning (CBGL) program that is strongly committed to advancing equity and social, political, and environmental justice, we created a land acknowledgment for our program in 2019. This was one way we hoped to demonstrate allyship with our local Indigenous communities. Over the years since the creation of the land acknowledgement, we’ve come to understand that while this action was well-intended, it was also ill-advised. In this post, we’d like to briefly share some of our program’s experience with land acknowledgments, as well as how our thinking has evolved on this issue, in the hopes that other CBGL programs may benefit from our experience.