The Mapping Project
On Land Acknowledgments
We recognize that passive land acknowledgment untethered to relationships with local Indigenous
groups is not a meaningful call to action nor does it provide material support for decolonizing the land. We
submit instead the words of Amrah Salomón: "The term
acknowledgement...it just means like, inclusion....I would rather burn
that shit down. You know. So what are the questions that can lead us
there. What are we, coming into this space, wanting to destroy? What
are we, coming into this space, committing ourselves to dismantle? And
how are we gonna do those things. Who needs to be present, who can we
build with, how can we build with them in a non-toxic way?"