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This pattern of scheduling during Jewish religious events is at best a troubling oversight and at worst a deliberate attempt to silence dissenting voices. Jewish students should not have to choose between practicing their religion and defending the existence of their historic homeland.

Cherokee Nation citizen Dr. Charla Hall was recently named Cornell University’s first visiting Indigenous scholar and will work with the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program.

After the discovery of ancestral remains being housed on the University of Kansas campus in September, the Office of the Vice Provost and DEIB have sent an update to staff,

KU has created a committee to administer the repatriation of Indigenous remains in its possession and is working to reconcile with the university’s Indigenous communities, according to a campus update.

"This Land" podcast host and indigenous issues journalist Rebecca Nagle spoke came to Buncombe as part of an ongoing effort to lift native voices.

Our university community is forever impoverished by his walking into the interior…

Tribal attorney Tara Houska will give talk Nov. 17

The University of Kansas has begun the process of returning Native American remains and other sacred objects that were recently discovered in its museum collections, the university said.

Here is a summary of Native American-related news around the U.S. this week: First Native American Woman in Space Addresses Native Media, Youth Fighting the effects of low gravity, her feet tucked under a bar, NASA astronaut Nicole Mann answered questions from Indigenous media Wednesday...

The KU Student Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution supporting the needs of the university’s Indigenous communities.