Indigenous issues
Land acknowledgements should reflect actionable commitment by settlers
November 9, 2020by Serena Bains, Staff Writer Land acknowledgements have become more commonly recited in recent years, with many meetings, classes, and emails including whose unceded lands we are currently situated on. In most cases, however, land acknowledgements only serve as a script for settlers to recite and to check off the box titled “Performative and Inconsequential Act of Reconciliation.” As a settler, prior to hearing my first land acknowledgement in lecture, I was ignorant to which nations’ lands I was on and what this meant. Now, I know that I reside on the unceded Coast Salish lands of the Katzie, Tsawwassen,…
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Allowing the RCMP to recruit on campus undermines reconciliation efforts
February 23, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer Anyone who’s wandered past the BIG Fair or the Mini BIG Fair at SFU may have seen a booth set up for the RCMP. Some have already realized the hypocrisy that goes into having the RCMP…
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Political Corner: You can’t understand the Wet’suwet’en protests without knowing their history
February 22, 2020By: Miriam Abel and Weichun Kua, SFU Students Many Indigenous land defenders and their allies are outraged by the recent invasion of the Wet’suwet’en territory by the RCMP. Despite the fact that all protesters were unarmed and repeatedly said they were…
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