Mount Holyoke Native Land Acknowledgement Policy Challenged By Free Speech Organization

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 homela

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 homela…