Minnesota universities tout land acknowledgments that distort history, scholars say | The College Fix

Minnesota universities tout land acknowledgments that distort history, scholars say | The College Fix - MARGARET PEPPIATT 

• ‘Warfare was brutal. Dakota warriors killed men, women, and children indiscriminately, and scalping was ingrained in their culture.’

"In recent years, higher institutions across the U.S. have increasingly issued formal “land acknowledgments” recognizing the American Indian tribes that formerly inhabited the land.

• But such statements blatantly ignore that Native Americans violently took the land over from other tribes and have also been financially compensated for the land, two scholars said in interviews this month with The College Fix...

While the statements vary in length and content, some Minnesotan universities use language asserting that an institution “occupies” the homelands of the Dakota people and seeks to remedy “ongoing injustices.”...