{"id":2660149,"date":"2026-09-13T14:08:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-loves-land-acknowledgements-heres-one-that-honors-our-forefathers-and-actually-tells-the-truth-about-native-tribes\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T14:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:18:50","slug":"the-left-loves-land-acknowledgements-heres-one-that-honors-our-forefathers-and-actually-tells-the-truth-about-native-tribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-loves-land-acknowledgements-heres-one-that-honors-our-forefathers-and-actually-tells-the-truth-about-native-tribes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left Loves &#8216;Land Acknowledgements&#8217;: Here&#8217;s One That Honors Our Forefathers and Actually Tells the Truth About Native Tribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-left-loves-land-acknowledgements-heres-one-that-honors-our-forefathers-and-actually-tells-the-truth-about-native-tribes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2660149&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The content discusses the concept of land acknowledgments and critiques their customary use. It highlights that traditional land acknowledgments often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/singer-roasted-for-woke-change-to-canadian-anthem-lyrics-in-world-series-performance\/\" title=\"Singer Roasted for Woke Change to Canadian Anthem Lyrics in World Series Performance\">oversimplify complex historical realities<\/a>, suggesting that land was taken from Native Americans in a manner similar to European conquest, while ignoring the nuanced and multifaceted history of indigenous tribes and their varied relations with settlers. The author argues that such acknowledgments tend to undermine national pride and foster divisiveness, contrasting them with a proposed choice that emphasizes patriotism, the non-colonial origins of the nation, and the role of settlers and Native Americans who contributed positively to the contry&#8217;s development. The piece advocates for reconceptualizing land acknowledgment to foster unity and pride, emphasizing shared history, cooperation, and the achievements of the nation, while recognizing Native Americans&#8217; historical contributions. the article emphasizes a call for a more constructive and prideful approach to acknowledging land history, moving beyond mere ritual to inspire national unity and patriotism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe land on which we are situated was once occupied and developed by patriots, who tamed raw wilderness, established a system of non-feudal private ownership, and freed themselves from colonialism. Upon their arrival from a far-away corrupt continent, these people received valuable assistance and knowledge from existing indigenous peoples.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You have probably never heard anything like that before the meeting of a politically correct organization. Instead, you may find that you cannot attend a civic event or even a church service without the reading of a vapid ritualized \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boston-athletics-association-apologizes-after-scheduling-boston-marathon-over-indigenous-peoples-day\/\" title=\"Boston Athletics Association Apologizes After Scheduling Boston Marathon Over Indigenous ...s\u2019 Day\">land acknowledgement<\/a>\u201d that virtue signals and expiates gussied up guilt over treatment of native peoples.<\/p>\n<p>The land acknowledgements imply that Native Americans once \u201cowned\u201d land which was expropriated or taken by conquest by European settlers. The truth, of course, is more nuanced and complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Native Americans could not be deprived of \u201cownership\u201d when they did not have the same patterns of settlement or even the concept of land ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, they were not a monolithic victim group, but a series of ethnically and linguistically distinct tribes, who were just as prone to aggression and arrogation among themselves as their new settler neighbors. For example, from the beginning, the friendship of the remarkable Squanto with the Plymouth pilgrims was a product of finding allies in conflicts between tribes.<\/p>\n<p>The land acknowledgements that decry land appropriation from some nonexistent greater Native American entity are thus spurious.<\/p>\n<p>More accurately, depending on the specific location, the acknowledgements might read \u201cEuropean settlers took this land from [Tribe 1], who, five years earlier, had taken it from [Tribe 2].\u201d To the extent that the ongoing process could be described as \u201ctaking,\u201d it was a proven universal human impulse, not a European one.<\/p>\n<p>The typical current land acknowledgements are easily mocked as toothless blather from ineffectual self-loathing dilettantes, but they represent a more insidious effort to undermine pride in our nation\u2019s history and its incredible attributes.<\/p>\n<p>Barely a week passes without publication of another survey showing young Americans to be less proud of their country and less patriotic than their predecessors. The pervasive increasingly negative depiction of the United States in elementary and primary education is part and parcel of the mentality evident in the land acknowledgements.<\/p>\n<p>My proposed land acknowledgement sets the record straight and provides ballast for strong pride in the forging of what Ronald Reagan called \u201cGod\u2019s Country,\u201d or, if you insist on being strictly secular, simply the \u201cGreatest Country on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In emphasizing the non-feudal and non-colonial nature of our amazing experiment, it underscores the underpinnings of the greatness forged by free enterprise capitalism practiced by a free, unindentured land-owning people.<\/p>\n<p>With its reference to \u201cpatriots,\u201d my land acknowledgement may seem specific to New England, but it\u2019s adaptable throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed acknowledgement also recognizes Native Americans, as their knowledge benefited settlers, from the planting of corn in Squanto\u2019s time to Sacagawea\u2019s essential service to Lewis and Clark two centuries hence. In the spirit of magnanimity and comity, I have chosen not to include anything negative about either the Native Americans or the settlers.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing wrong with a little myth building to foster unity in a people whose corrosive popular culture and educational system increasingly serve as divisive centrifugal forces.<\/p>\n<p>In sum, my proposed land acknowledgement is not a parody simply intended to mock the politically correct ones that are increasingly ubiquitous. It is the real thing, intended for serious consideration by organizations that wish to instill pride in where we have been and where we are going.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><b>The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either d or endorsed by the owners of this website. 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