Article content Who, ultimately, possesses the land? That is a question at the root of the territorial acknowledgments that have become pervasive across Canada, a sombre public rite. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Unceded: Why we acknowledge, or don't, that B.C. First Nations never signed away land Back to video But it’s not only non-Indigenous Canadians who undergo conflicted feelings, whether gratitude, guilt or consternation, when politicians, school principals and others open a gathering by acknowledging they’re on the “unceded traditional territory” of the Wet’suwet’en, Algonquin, Musqueam or other First Nation.