They acknowledge that this was once your land.
You governed here then, but now you do not.
Beyond this, no further relief is planned.
They did apologize and take a stand.
Members of Parliament gave their best shot
To acknowledge that this was once your land.
Atrocities? Their heads were in the sand.
Not knowing kept them out of a tight spot;
No judicial relief had to be planned.
They stole? Although they never called a grand
Jury to meet while the case was still hot,
They acknowledge that this was once your land.
Kidnapping? Residential school daze spanned
Decades and now apologies you’ve got;
Beyond this, no further relief is planned.
Rape? That merits more than a reprimand
Of the clerics who thought your kids were hot,
But now they acknowledge this was your land.
Beyond this, no further relief is planned.
Poet’s note: Maybe acknowledgements alone won’t do the trick. See “Six Nations calls out Brantford, Ont., councillor who sees land acknowledgments as ‘virtue signalling’” by Kate Bueckert, CBC News, 18 June 2026.