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From the Archives: Celebrating Native American heritage at Notre Dame

Evan McKenna, Chris Russo and Maggie Clark | Monday, October 19, 2020

Today, discussions of Native Americans at Notre Dame often begin and end with disputes over the Main Building’s Columbus murals — almost never acknowledging the University’s long, complicated history with Indigenous peoples, or the local tribes’ rich and vibrant cultures. This week’s edition of From the Archives looks beyond the controversy, towards celebration — chronicling

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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),

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Panel explores presence of whiteness at Notre Dame

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

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College professor, student reflect on Native American Day

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