Enacting Relationality: Remembering the Land in Land Acknowledgments

Author:

Beckmann Sydney1,Wilson Khrystyne2

Affiliation:

1. Sydney Beckmann is a PhD student in American Indian studies at the University of Arizona. She earned her MTS at the University of Notre Dame in 2018. Her research interests include Indigenous decolonization and race and Indigeneity.

2. Khrystyne Wilson is a PhD student in American Indian studies at the University of Arizona. She earned an MA from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 2017 and a JD in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy at the University of Arizona in 2021. Her research focuses on American Indian law and religion.

Abstract

Recently, as performing land acknowledgments within activist and academic communities grows in popularity, scholars are beginning to critically engage with their purpose and production. While the development of these discussions in university settings demonstrates a beneficial turn toward working with and interest in Indigenous communities, as well as the academy’s recognition of its complicity in ongoing settler colonization, it is important to reflect on these practices now, at this moment. Exploring recent critiques of land acknowledgments, we demonstrate that contemporary land acknowledgments maintain Western conceptions of land by focusing on the people as if they are divorced from it. This article argues, utilizing the peoplehood matrix, that land and people are inexorably linked in Indigenous ontologies, in an equal relationship, yet the form of current land acknowledgments often separates the people from their land in conformity with Western ideas of land ownership and history. We maintain that it is crucial in creating and performing land acknowledgments to remember the relationality between Indigenous peoples and the land.

Publisher

UCLA American Indian Studies Center

Subject

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Anthropology

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