Universities won’t give back the land — but they will bury history
Land acknowledgments began as campus theater. Now the ideology behind them is threatening archaeology, museum collections, and scientific inquiry.
Anyone who has spent time on a university campus recently has likely been forced to sit through a Native American land acknowledgment.
At Arizona State University, one plays on repeat as guests wait for graduation ceremonies to begin. Faculty in my college must sit through the ritual before we can even start business meetings.
The proper response to historical injustice is not to destroy historical evidence. It is to preserve it, study it honestly, and allow future generations to learn from it.
As you might expect, no university is handing back its land. Neither are the professors who recite these acknowledgments with the solemnity of a Marxist prayer while continuing to live comfortably on the same “tribal lands” they claim were unjustly taken.
Instead, they join celebrities such as Billie Eilish in proclaiming that “no one is illegal on stolen land” while living, working, and drawing salaries on the very land they call stolen.
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