Most Canadians reject the idea that they’re living on “stolen” indigenous land, a recent survey suggests.
With older Canadians comprising the bulk of the majority, 52 percent of those polled across the country say they do not believe they live on stolen indigenous land. Meanwhile, 27 percent think they do, while 21 percent either declined to answer or said they didn’t know.
This research follows a lawsuit filed in the B.C. Supreme Court in April by four professors who complained that UBC’s land acknowledgments declaring that the school is on “unceded indigenous land” violated a B.C. law requiring universities to be non-political….