Last Friday, I discussed the ramifications of affixing a secretary’s certificate to a deed or instrument conveying or otherwise transferring any assets of a corporation. Today’s post covers the legal ...
In the 2019-20 school year, when students at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University crafted and urged official passage of a statement acknowledging that the school lay on former native lands in Nashville, ...
Some Indigenous scholars have come to regard the standard land acknowledgment as “hollow” and “not enough.” To better understand how a land acknowledgment should be folded into more comprehensive ...
The Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA) at the University of Colorado Boulder acknowledges that the land we occupy in Macky Auditorium is the traditional territories of the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, ...
In response to a letter from Randy Griffin published on Dec. 11, where he criticized the City Council’s decision to recite a Land Acknowledgment, here is my critique of his critique. Mr. Griffin ...
"[I]n the public university setting, student disagreement with a professor's academic speech on an issue of public concern cannot alter the Pickering analysis in the government's favor." A short ...
These days, land or territory acknowledgments are increasingly common, often made at the outset of public gatherings. In our industry, where we are reliant on a strong connection to the land and ...
Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That grade-school doggerel has not held up well in the 21st century. While many Italian Americans still take pride in Christopher Columbus as a world explorer, many ...
With January now in the rearview mirror, many charities have wrapped up their gift acknowledgment letters for 2021, thanking donors for their generosity and assisting them with their preparations for ...