Obama Center opens with land acknowledgment, then Native American dance show
TL;DR
At the Obama Presidential Center's opening, organizers began with a land acknowledgment about stolen land—a move that drew online backlash—before a Native American dance performance in the plaza, with placards and a past Obama quote acknowledging Indigenous peoples and treaties.
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