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-6 posts tagged "Native American"
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
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
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),
Thomas Murphy | Monday, January 28, 2019
A six-member panel convened Friday in the auditorium of the Hesburgh Center for International Studies for an event entitled “Confronting Whiteness at Notre Dame: Power, Identity and Exclusion.” Hosted by the Mediation Program of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the panel was moderated by David Anderson Hooker, an associate professor of the practice
Observer Staff Report | Sunday, January 20, 2019
Luigi Gregori’s Christopher Columbus murals will no longer be displayed fully in the Main Building, University President Fr. John Jenkins said Sunday in an email to members of the Notre Dame community. The murals, a series of 12 paintings in the main corridor of the Main Building, were completed in 1884 by Italian painter Luigi
Megan Uekert | Friday, September 23, 2016
Every year on the fourth Friday of September, Native American Day is celebrated to honor the culture of indigenous people, past and present. It’s a culture that’s very much a part of the local community, Aaron Moe, assistant professor of literature at Saint Mary’s, said. “In Indiana and up in Michigan there’s the Pokagon Band