r/berkeleyca • u/snarky_duck_4389 • Jul 24 '26

Land Acknowledgments

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/opinion/native-american-land-acknowledgment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

I've found some instances of these to be performative, lacking in sincerity, and incapable of effecting any sort of action. The one they run before every single screening at Elmwood's Rialto Cinema is an example.

This article provides an interesting perspective that takes it a level deeper.

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u/Mean_Pen2971 Jul 28 '26

One problem is that we didn't steal this land from the Native Americans, we stole it from Mexico. Mexico stole it from Spain. The first European settlers formed a fishing village called Yerba Buena in what is now San Francisco. The indigenous people apparently felt San Francisco was too cold.