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Heading reads: “Is Your Land Acknowledgment Perpetuating Oppression?”
Five sets of statements contrast unhelpful and helpful approaches, as follows:
Red X mark: You’re motivated by optics or trendiness.
Green check mark: You’re motivated by a desire to support Indigenous communities.
Red X mark: You refer to Indigenous Peoples solely in the past tense.
Green check mark: You balance truth-telling about colonization with celebration of present-day Native communities, leadership, and wisdom.
Red X mark: It’s a formulaic recitation or cut-and-pasted template.
Green check mark: It’s personal, relevant, and alive.
Red X mark: You have little or no knowledge of who the Native people are in your area, field, or organization and what their needs are.
Green check mark: You are in relationship with and are actively working to materially benefit the Native people in your area, field, and/or organization.
Red X mark: You obsess over the right words.
Green check mark: You constantly work to take your next right action.
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