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Land Acknowledgements PDF Version

The BPK Graduate Program Committee encourages a land acknowledgement at the beginning of presentations for MSc proposals, PhD comprehensive exams, PhD exit seminars, and thesis defenses. The student who is presenting may choose to provide a land acknowledgment themselves, or they may choose for the faculty Chair of the event to provide a land acknowledgment. The student and Chair should discuss ahead of time if a land acknowledgement will be provided and by whom.

Background

Reconciliation efforts aim to restore the relationships that were compromised by settler colonialism. There are multiple kinds of engagement, reflection and action that contribute to reconciliation efforts, including work between Indigenous people and their communities, Indigenous people and settlers, and settlers with other settlers. Land acknowledgments are only one aspect of the work that can be done by settlers.

Purpose

Land acknowledgements are a part of practicing decolonization, as a step towards allyship and accountability. Recognition, respect, and promoting a welcoming environment for Indigenous people is especially important as Indigenous people have historically not been made to feel welcome in academic spaces. Further, land acknowledgements can serve to disrupt and discomfort settler colonialism. Disrupting the status quo may cause some discomfort, prompt reflection and ideally lead to changes that further reconciliation efforts

Key Points in Giving a Land Acknowledgement

1) Acknowledge and recognize the Indigenous territory or territories from where you are presenting and/or where your research was conducted. Some research may be required to find this out (see resources below) and pronunciation can be improved by listening to how people from specific nations pronounce the names of their lands (e.g., via YouTube).

• Note that the SFU is on Coast Salish land, but there are many Coast Salish nations. Best practices is to include the specific nations you are recognizing. For instance, SFU Burnaby campus is specifically located on the lands of the s蓹lilw蓹ta涩 (Tsleil- Waututh), k史ik史蓹茮虛蓹m (Kwikwetlem), S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh 脷xwumixw (Squamish) and x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam) Nations.

2) Make the statement personal. You may want to acknowledge what you have learned from the lands you have done your research on and the people who have stewarded that land. You may want to share about values you have learned from Indigenous Elders, friends and resources.

• This will typically require deeper learning and reflection. Often, when land acknowledgements come across as someone simply ticking a box, the speaker may not have incorporated a lot of personal engagement and reflection.

3) Include a call to action. You could talk about the steps that you are taking towards reconciliation.

4) Be open to getting it wrong! Sometimes we don鈥檛 do things for fear of causing harm, but inaction is its own problem. Sometimes we get things wrong, and then we reflect and we learn.

Resources

: find out which territories you are on. Also available as a mobile app

University of Alberta: -

脥mesh Mobile App: walking tours of SFU鈥檚 Indigenous art 

Special thanks to Diana Bedoya for gathering and presenting the information and resources in this document to the GPC