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IPRTF steering committee debates land‑acknowledgment wording, seeks tie to action on Indigenous disparities
Summary
Steering committee members discussed revising the land-acknowledgment text used at meetings to emphasize Coast Salish peoples and to attach specific actions and disparity notes; a small drafting group volunteered to produce recommended language for the full task force.
Members of the Incarceration Prevention Reduction Task Force (IPRTF) Steering Committee debated whether the group’s land‑acknowledgment should be shorter, rotated among readers and — crucially — linked to concrete actions addressing racial and tribal disparities in the criminal justice system.
The discussion began when staff had difficulty sharing the draft language and Mariam offered to read a land‑acknowledgment that names ‘‘the traditional and unceded territory of the Lummi, Nooksack, Samish, and Semiahmoo people.’’ Several members said the wording is important…
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