A discussion with Suzanne Keeptwo and Brenda Leadlay
[/tm_pb_text][tm_pb_audio admin_label=”Audio” audio=”https://massyarts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Audio-We-All-Go-Back-To-The-Land-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3″ title=”Listen: Part 1 – We All Go Back to the Land ” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” title_line_height=”1em”] [/tm_pb_audio][tm_pb_audio admin_label=”Audio” audio=”https://massyarts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Suzanne-Keeptwo-Audio-only-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3″ title=”Part 2: We All Go Back to the Land ” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” title_line_height=”1em”] [/tm_pb_audio][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]Land Acknowledgements often begin academic conferences, cultural events, government press gatherings, and even hockey games. They are supposed to be an act of Reconciliation between Indigenous peoples in Canada and non-Indigenous Canadians, but they have become so routine and formulaic that they have sometimes lost meaning. Seen more and more as empty words, some events have dropped Land Acknowledgements altogether.
Métis artist and educator Suzanne Keeptwo wants to change that. She sees the Land Acknowledgement as an opportunity for Indigenous peoples in Canada to communicate a message to non-Indigenous Canadians—a message founded upon Age Old Wisdom about how to sustain the Land we all want to call home.
This is an essential narrative for truth sharing and knowledge acquisition.
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