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Former Colombian president discusses climate, peace in Keough panel

Aidan O'Malley | Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Former Colombian president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Juan Manuel Santos headlined a panel on environmental protection and peacebuilding at the Keough School of Global Affairs’ Washington, D.C. office Tuesday. He and other panelists discussed the relationship between climate change and international conflict, advocating for action on environmental risks to foster peace in climate-vulnerable countries.

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Ansari Institute awards Australian Scholar with Nasr Book Prize

Liam Price | Tuesday, October 4, 2022

The Ansari Institute awarded the first annual Nasr Book Prize to Australian scholar Tyson Yunkaporta Sunday night for his book, ‘Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World.’ The award, according to executive director of the Ansari Institute Mahan Mirza, was created to “recognize an author who’s written a remarkable work and contributes to

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‘Most people don’t really know we’re a thing’: Students, faculty reflect on lack of Native representation at Notre Dame

Gina Twardosz | Monday, September 9, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is the first story in a two-part series examining the ways Native language and cultural identity are being kept alive by the students of Notre Dame. To learn more about their reflections on language and culture, explore these audio and visual clips. While Fr. Edward Sorin and the Congregation of Holy Cross

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‘It makes you feel really powerful’: Native students comment on preserving their language, culture

Gina Twardosz | Monday, September 9, 2019

Meet the Notre Dame students who are trying to ensure their Native culture, heritage and language doesn’t become a thing of the past. Alan Mychal Boyd, junior For Lakota student and Notre Dame junior Alan Mychal Boyd, “one of the biggest linchpins of culture is language.” It’s a link to the past, he said, and

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Representation matters at ‘Revisions: Contemporary Native Art’

Hanna Kennedy | Monday, February 18, 2019

You may have seen the posters on campus — they’re hard to miss. In the black and white photographs reproduced on the posters, images of Native American men have been annotated, edited and — quite literally — revised in red ink. These images depict a series of works by the artist Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke/Crow),