Land‑Acknowledgments as Coalition Signaling

Land‑acknowledgment practices have moved from sporadic local gestures to standardized progressive rituals that parties use to manage activist constituencies. When those rituals are escalated—shifting from 'stewardship' to language like 'genocide' or 'stolen land'—they function less as commemoration and more as explicit ideological demands that can push party platforms away from broad civic nationalism. — If ritual acknowledgments are serving tactical coalition management, they can change how parties communicate about immigration, national identity, and foreign policy, with electoral consequences.