In October 2021, the Association of Indigenous Anthropologists (AIA) called for a moratorium on land acknowledgments within the discipline citing a variety of harms perpetuated by this increasingly common performance.¹ Of particular concern to AIA are acknowledgments that misrecognize Indigenous peoples, fail to advance Indigenous sovereignty, and fail to advocate for concrete anticolonial actions, including the return of stolen land and water. Land acknowledgments are broken.

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