land acknowledgment

Are We Seeing the Beginning of the End of Campus Land Acknowledgements?

Thanksgiving is a time for celebrating traditions, sharing a meal with friends and family, and—if you’re on the left—reciting somber land acknowledgements about “Indigenous Peoples” before passing the mashed potatoes. American universities have been issuing land acknowledgements for more than a decade. These statements, meant to recognize the supposed ancestral claims of “Indigenous Peoples” displaced […]

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George Mason University Begins Orientation with a Land Acknowledgment

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Liberty Unyielding on July 3, 2025, and is crossposted here with permission. It has been edited to fit Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. This fall, a Virginia couple is sending their daughter to George Mason University (GMU), Virginia’s largest public university, which has over 40,000 students. On June 30, they […]

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