Memorial University embracing ‘decolonization’ by acknowledging Indigenous territory at start of events – CBC
Staff and students at Memorial University are striving towards reconciliation with the province’s Indigenous population with a short declaration at the start of many on-campus events.
If you’ve attended anything at MUN so far this school year, you’ve probably heard it.
“We respectfully acknowledge the territory in which we gather as the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk, and the island of Newfoundland as the ancestral homelands of the Mi’kmaq and Beothuk,” the declaration begins.
It also goes on to acknowledge the Inuit and Innu populations as the original inhabitants of Labrador.
