The rise of “land acknowledgments” is fueling debate over their value, whether they constitute meaningful affirmation or serve to salve largely white sensibilities.
A land acknowledgment is a formal statement that recognizes Indigenous peoples as the original owners and stewards of the land on which this country was built.Many tribes that hold land have been systematically forced onto less valuable, less productive properties, excluding them from key sectors of the economy, the study noted.
The question, Native peoples say, is whether the institutions offering acknowledgment truly understand what they’re acknowledging. The creation of the United States is an immigration story, but not the one that most people think of. Europeans who settled on these shores killed, chased, and cheated Indigenous people, supported in that effort by the colonial government and then by the U.S. federal government.
The federal Indian Removal Act of 1830 violently evicted Native Americans in order to expand U.S. land holdings in the Southern states. More than 100,000 were forced to relocate to what became the state of Oklahoma, and thousands died of disease and starvation on the way —The 1887 Dawes Act directly claimed an additional 90 million acres of Native American land.
The first formal land acknowledgment he heard, Stainbrook said, was at a county commissioners’ meeting in South Dakota. He expected the oral statement would be followed by plans for action, that maybe the county had a property it wished to return.“It requires more sincerity,” Stainbrook said. “Alleviating someone’s guilt, that’s what a lot of those statements are about.”In September the City of Oakland announced a plan to return five acres of park property to local Native Americans.
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