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Resident proposes land acknowledgment for Canterbury tricentennial; board defers for study
Summary
A resident urged the Select Board to adopt a land acknowledgment ahead of the town tricentennial; board members asked for links and deferred formal consideration to the next meeting so members can review sample text and research.
Evan (identified in the meeting transcript only by first name) proposed that Canterbury adopt a formal land acknowledgment in recognition that the town is on land previously inhabited by Indigenous people. “The settlers that came here were not the first people to live on the lands that we now call Canterbury. And a land acknowledgment shows a formal recognition that the town knows that we are on stolen land,” Evan said.
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