Similar Ceremonies Outside of Australia
Although not called as such, similar salutations may be exchanged in other ex-settler colonial countries with indigenous minorities. An example would be during the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, when the Squamish Nation, the Musqueam Indian Band, the Lil'wat First Nation, and the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation gave Olympic visitors an official welcome to their traditional territories (Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada). In a few cases the Australian usage has been adopted whole cloth, as when engineer Gordon Howell prefaced his remarks to a 2010 conference on housing in Inuvik, NWT with an acknowledgement borrowed from Australian politician Mike Rann.
On 26 January, 2013, Kathleen Wynne's speech to the Ontario Liberal Party's leadership convention began with an acknowledgement of country for the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation.
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