Kuyini Ukuvuma Umhlaba?

  “I-Land Acknowledge iyisitatimende esisemthethweni esamukela futhi esihlonipha aboMdabu njengabaphathi bendabuko balo mhlaba kanye nobudlelwano obuhlala njalo obukhona phakathi kwaboHlanga kanye nezindawo zabo zendabuko.

Ukuqaphela umhlaba kuwukubonakaliswa kokubonga nokwazisa kulabo ohlala endaweni yabo, futhi kuyindlela yokuhlonipha aboMdabu abebehlala futhi besebenza kulowo mhlaba kusukela kudala. Kubalulekile ukuqonda umlando omude okwenze ukuba uhlale ezweni, futhi ufune ukuqonda indawo yakho kulowo mlando. Ukuhlonishwa komhlaba akukho enkathini edlule, noma umongo womlando: ubukoloni buwuhlelo oluqhubekayo lwamanje, futhi sidinga ukwakha ukuqaphela kwethu ukubamba iqhaza kwethu kwamanje. Kubalulekile futhi ukuqaphela ukuthi ukuvuma umhlaba kuwumthetho womdabu.”  https://www.northwestern.edu/native-american-and-indigenous-peoples/about/Land%20Acknowledgement.html

Phakathi nalo mhlangano wesidlo sasemini oqondiswe kumculi wokufundisa, kodwa ovuleleke emphakathini, sizozwa imbongi ka-Osage u-Duane BigEagle, owayeyimbongi kaCalPoets' Uthisha, owayenguMxhumanisi Wendawo yaseMarin County kanye nowayenguMongameli webhodi labaqondisi beCalPoets.   Kulo mhlangano owakhayo, ohlanganyelwe, ababambiqhaza bazomenywa ukuba bafunde, babelane, futhi babuze imibuzo ngalo mkhuba - bese beqala inqubo yokuzakhela owabo umhlaba wokuvuma okubonisa indawo yabo kanye nobuqiniso babo, uma bekhetha.