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photo by: Lauren Fox Haskell Indian Nations University professor Daniel Wildcat is pictured on campus outside of Hiawatha Hall on March 10. Haskell Indian Nations University professor Daniel Wildcat has been an advocate for over two decades for restoring one of the campus’ central buildings, and now he wants to tie it to another project: a place to discuss justice. The building is Hiawatha Hall, a structure built in 1898 that used to serve a variety of functions — chapel space, a gym for female students, a location for theater performances. But for over 20 years, Wildcat estimates, the...

Staff Report photo by: Conrad Swanson/Journal-World File Photo A sign at the entrance to Haskell Indian Nations University is shown Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. Haskell Indian Nations University’s new Hiawatha Center for Justice is hosting an online forum Thursday about the Black American experience. Kevin Willmott, an Academy-Award winning screenwriter and University of Kansas film and media studies professor, will host a discussion about the past and present injustices Black Americans face, and what steps can be taken to create institutions that embrace systemic justice. Willmott will be joined...

Untitled by Bryson Meyers of the Institute of American Indian Arts “Maybe when the people have outdone themselves, then maybe, the stars will fall upon the land, or drops of hot water will rain upon the Earth. Or the land will turn under. Or our father, the Sun, will not rise to start the day. Then our possessions will turn into beasts and devour us whole. If not, there will be an odor of gases, which will fill the air we breathe, and the end for us shall come. But the people will bring upon themselves what they receive.” —a Zuni prophecy

Power and Place: Indian Education in America (with Vine Deloria Jr.) and Red Alert!: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge, which is a Native response to the environmental crisis and marked the beginning of Wildcat’s leadership in the climate change crisis. A Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, Wildcat talked about his first experiences teaching at Haskell and being able to develop a Western civilization class that was comparative, with an Indigenous counterpoint to the European tradition. “I think that it really made no sense to separate our cultures, who we were as I...