Taylor Swift kicked off her Toronto concert Thursday night with a “land acknowledgment” a common practice among left-wing activists who believe they live on “stolen land.”
“We acknowledge that we are performing today at Rogers Centre, located on Treaty 13 lands,” read a graphic projected on stage before Swift’s performance. “We acknowledge the First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples whose original and treaty territories we stand upon.”
Taylor Swift put out a Native American land acknowledgment at her concert tonight. She has single handedly solved injustice. You go girl ✊🏿 pic.twitter.com/q95fTDtf8O
— Cam (@cam0795) November 15, 2024
Treaty 13 refers to the Toronto Purchase of 1805, in which the British government purchased the land that is now Toronto from the Mississauga tribe. Swift has become increasingly political in recent years, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris and praising Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for being pro-abortion.
Once a feature of far-left organizations, land acknowledgment have become popular among liberals in recent years. The 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago opened with a statement that the convention was taking place on land where a Native American tribe had been “forcibly removed”
The Daily Wire reported earlier this year that over 100 public school districts in the United States have “land acknowledgement statements,” many of which say the United States was built on “stolen land” and committed genocide.