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By Chris Lisinski
State House News Service
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression is challenging a land acknowledgment policy implemented by a liberal arts school in Western Massachusetts.
The organization sent a letter to Mount Holyoke College interim president Beverly Daniel Tatum calling on the school to drop or amend its land acknowledgment, arguing that the school's current policy is compelled speech. A land acknowledgment is "a statement that recognizes the Indigenous peoples who have been dispossessed from the homelands and territories upon which an institution was built and currently occupies and operates in," according to Shoreline Community College.