They are often made  at the beginning of ceremonies, lectures, or public events. Acknowledging the Indigenous territory you are on, and you personal connection to it, can be a subtle yet powerful way to recognize the true history of colonialism and a need for change in our settler colonial societies.

🗺 Find territory acknowledgement information for your community:

• • Native Land’s Website
  • Native Land’s Apple App

Resources to help

• What is a Land Acknowledgement?, UBC Xwi7xwa Library
• Are you planning to do a Land Acknowledgement?, Debbie Reese for American Indians in Children’s Literature, March 9, 2019
• ‘I regret it’: Hayden King on writing Ryerson University’s territorial acknowledgement, Unreserved, CBC, January 20, 2019
• Territory Acknowledgement Panel Talk, [VIDEO] Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, University of British Columbia | October 18, 2016
• Making Coast Salish Territorial Acknowledgements Matter, [VIDEO] Coast Salish Cultural Network, November 25, 2016
• Beyond Territorial Acknowledgements, Chelsea Vowel, September 23, 2016
• Know the Land: Territories Campaign, Laurier Students’ Public Interest Research Group (LSPIRG)