Are you concerned by the prevalence of land acknowledgment statements? They are seen at cultural, educational, and government events.

Alpha News featured an article on this subject, originally published by American Experiment, an excerpt follows.

If you’ve attended a cultural event or government meeting in the Twin Cities in the last few years, you’ve likely experienced a “land acknowledgment” — a public confession of guilt for living on “stolen land” that rightfully belongs to the Dakota Indians. I’ve done so twice recently: at a ballet at the University of Minnesota’s Northrop Auditorium and an opera at St. Paul’s Ordway Center for the Performing Arts.

Land acknowledgments in this state proclaim that ordinary Minnesotans are here illegally. They feature an abject apology and a pledge for repentance and reparations, frequently framed in quasi-religious language.

In 2023, the Star Tribune reported that Native nonprofits have been flooded with requests from “major corporations to grade-school teachers” for guidance on how to write these statements.

Land acknowledgements are not so much about righting wrongs as provoking and capitalizing on ordinary citizens’ guilt to gain power, money, and cultural clout. They are just the sort of “woke” initiative we expect to see discredited, now that Donald Trump is in the White House.