Jully Black changed the original lyrics \u0027our home and native land\u0027 in a nod to Indigenous rights
Jully Black sang “O Canada! Our home on native land,” with a pause and emphasis on the word “on,” at her performance before the NBA All-Star Game in Salt Lake City on Sunday, changing the original lyrics “our home and native land.”Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
The last official change to Canada’s national anthem was in 2018, when its lyrics were updated to make them gender-neutral, changing “all thy sons command” to “all of us command.” “O Canada now includes all of us,” said a Senate statement at the time. There is no proposed legislation to make further changes to the anthem.Article content
Carrabré says that UBC’s arts faculty recently changed the language of its land acknowledgment, a type of formal statement that recognizes Indigenous peoples, to reflect that the faculty is “is located on the traditional, ancestral, and occupied territory” of the Musqueam peoples. Jay Soule, an artist also known as Chippewar, says that the use of “on native land” is not new. He is the designer of a T-shirt that says “Oh Canada Your Home On Native Land,” which has been selling for about nine years.
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