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When people come together as a group, they are increasingly taking the time to acknowledge that the land on which they are gathered is Indigenous land.
While land acknowledgements, also called territory acknowledgements, may seem like a relatively new phenomenon, the practice dates back hundreds of years.
"A land acknowledgment itself is an Indigenous practice that goes back centuries," explained Catharyn Andersen, Memorial's special advisor to the president on Aboriginal affairs.
"In British Columbia, for example, where there were hundreds of nations, it was protocol and practice for visitors to a place to acknowledge they were visiting someone else's territory, to acknowledge that territory and thank them for being on that territory."
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