CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Back in 2000, I moved 800 miles away from Cleveland to Nebraska – a state I had only visited once before – where I made friends from all over the world of different nationalities, ethnicities and religious backgrounds.

I was challenged to defend my beliefs and make peace with letting some of them go when I outgrew them. I learned about interlinked social justice issues I had never been aware of before. And all of that stemmed from being in rooms with diverse people in the proverbial marketplace of ideas.

That’s why I lament that students at The Ohio State University will no longer be exposed to land acknowledgments following a recent decision by OSU to discontinue them in most instances.

In Ohio, a state that has so effectively dispossessed Native people of their land

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