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ND's Land Acknowledgement... by Kbyrnes

...Native American Initiatives.

It looks like every public institution in the City of Chicago has a land acknowledgement:

The City of Chicago
The Field Museum
The Art Institute of Chicago
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Loyola University Chicago
DePaul University
Northwestern University
Newberry Library
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago History Museum
...etc.

I just checked the suburbs. Most of them seem to not have land acknowledgement statements, though some of the school and library districts do.

It seems like an easy and almost cheap way to virtue-signal, though I wonder how much of a virtue it really is to say, "We occupy what used to be your land. We're not leaving, but want to send you this cheery note." I'm not particularly opposed to it, but also not sure what it really accomplishes, any more than renaming highways, etc.