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506-word statement decries cultural genocide against Indigenous peoples and settler colonialism toward Blacks.
Some school board members displayed Native Land graphics on their Zoom screens during Monday s board meeting.
Meetings of governmental bodies in Evanston typically do not open with a prayer or the Pledge of Allegiance.
But soon, every board and committee meeting in Evanston/Skokie School District 65 may open with a 506-word recitation of the wrongs inflicted upon Native Americans and enslaved people in the United States.
Termed a “Land Acknowledgement,” the statement, according to its authors at the district, serves to “recognize the enduring relationship between Indigenous Peoples and the land stolen from them.”