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Introduction
In late 2021, the PCC Advisory Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ACDEI) was asked by the PCC Policy Committee (PoCo) to draft a land acknowledgement statement for use by the PCC. In investigating this request, ACDEI members found significant criticism of these statements, with the main concern being that these statements can be performative and used in place of initiating real change benefiting Indigenous peoples. Additionally, the PCC is a global organization, whose members include Indigenous people and settlers across a variety of geographic, institutional, and historical contexts, and whose activities take place on many different lands and virtual infrastructures. As such, no single land acknowledgement can represent the PCC's relationships to Indigenous lands or peoples. A generic or "fill in the blank'' land acknowledgement would be antithetical to the local reflection, contextualization, and action that these types of statements encourage.
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