Juno News - Grade 7s told to write their own land acknowledgements and reject “ownership”

00:00:00.000 Do you think 12-year-olds should be spending class time writing land acknowledgements?

00:00:04.400 Well, Canadian students are being asked to do exactly that as part of their grade 7 curriculum.

00:00:09.720 Students are now learning the Indigenous Teachings and Land Acknowledgement Unit.

00:00:14.240 And as part of this, they are comparing Western ideas with Indigenous ideas, as you can see here.

00:00:19.900 And they're kind of describing the West as individualistic and Indigenous as kind and collective.

00:00:26.700 As a final project students are asked to write a land acknowledgement but not just that but also

00:00:32.580 how students are going to take action to fix the problems faced by Indigenous peoples. Here's an

00:00:38.860 example of one written by a student you can pause to read the full thing but I want to note something

00:00:42.580 here they're talking about taking care of the land and they emphasize take care not take away

00:00:48.820 so you can kind of see what agenda is being pushed on the students here. Here's another one that you

00:00:55.300 can pause and read and I have one more right here. I'm curious if you guys agree with this or not so

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Juno News - March 27, 2026