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Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians

Posted on April 16, 2021

For too many students, teachers, and scholars of U.S. history, Native American history has been at best an add-on – a subject dealt with at the margins of other topics. This webinar brings together four …

Posted in News & Announcements, Top StoriesTagged First Nations, Ho Chunk education

‘These spaces are sacred’: Ho-Chunk speaker urges mindfulness, reverence of campus indigenous sites

Posted on September 30, 2019

Politics and social structures tend to divide us, but our shared reverence for the land and its history can be the bond that unites us, Samantha Skenandore, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, told a …

Posted in Top StoriesTagged campus history, First Nations, Ho-Chunk

This land is their land: UW-Madison grapples with Wisconsin’s ugly treatment of the Ho-Chunk

Posted on September 10, 2019

UW–Madison was built on land where the Ho-Chunk people lived for at least 12,000 years before white settlers forced them out. The university is trying to acknowledge this painful history with the Our Shared Future …

Posted in UncategorizedTagged campus history, First Nations, Ho-Chunk, Ho-Chunk dedication, Native history

Wild rice project sows seeds for university, tribal collaboration

Posted on July 25, 2019

The Ojibwe people tell of a prophecy that spurred their journey from the Atlantic coast of North America to the Great Lakes region more than 1,000 years ago — revelations that told them to travel …

Posted in UncategorizedTagged First Nations, Native Nations, Rice

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