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Land Acknowledgement

Official Land Acknowledgement

The most recent land acknowledgement approved by Senate is the following:

The Dalhousie University Senate acknowledges that we are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People and pays respect to the Indigenous knowledges held by the Mi’kmaq People, and to the wisdom of their Elders past and present. The Mi'kmaq People signed Peace and Friendship Treaties with the Crown, and section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 recognizes and affirms Aboriginal and Treaty rights. We are all Treaty people.

Personalizing a land acknowledgement 

Indigenous Knowledges & Ways of Knowing by Dalhousie’s Centre for Learning and Teaching has an excellent section with more information about personalizing land acknowledgements and about land acknowledgements in general.

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