Land acknowledgements, a signature feature of the left’s virtue-signaling pantheon, have become commonplace at universities and city councils nationwide. They serve as formal statements of acknowledgement and recognition of the Indian tribes whose territory the institution “occupies.” In reality, land acknowledgments are empty gestures that undermine American sovereignty and fail to help Indian nations.
At UC Berkeley, every club orientation includes this passage: “OASIS acknowledges that UC Berkeley sits on the territory of xucyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the… Read More in Real Clear Politics