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 …
First Nations
‘These spaces are sacred’: Ho-Chunk speaker urges mindfulness, reverence of campus indigenous sites
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 …
This land is their land: UW-Madison grapples with Wisconsin’s ugly treatment of the Ho-Chunk
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 …
Wild rice project sows seeds for university, tribal collaboration
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 …