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Who, ultimately, possesses the land?
That is a question at the root of the territorial acknowledgments that have become pervasive across Canada, a sombre public rite.
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But it’s not only non-Indigenous Canadians who undergo conflicted feelings, whether gratitude, guilt or consternation, when politicians, school principals and others open a gathering by acknowledging they’re on the “unceded traditional territory” of the Wet’suwet’en, Algonquin, Musqueam or other First Nation.
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