A land acknowledgement uttered at a Winnipeg event spiralled out of control on Monday, leaving dozens with minor injuries.
Land acknowledgements are statements made before events or meetings to officially recognize the Indigenous territory or lands it takes place on.
“The land acknowledgement was going fine and then all of a sudden it just spiralled out of control,” said Nelson Sinclair, who was at the event when it happened.
“I was thrown against the wall and then everything went black.”
While usually conducted without incident, land acknowledgements occasionally malfunction. In 2017, a land acknowledgement at a Regina, Sask., meeting briefly returned most of the province to First Nations before it was reversed.