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Friday, April 19, 2024
Originally published in The Western Carolina Journalist November is Native American Heritage Month, but it’s not just a heritage for the Cherokee people of Western North Carolina. It’s a living, vibrant culture. There are 547 federally recognized tribes in the United States. Native Americans were not automatically afforded U.S. citizenship […]
November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to recognize and respect Indigenous culture. This month also recalls the dark past of colonized land. Land acknowledgements, formal documents honoring tribal homelands, are used by institutions across America, including WCU. WCU sits on land that was, and remains, the ancestral and […]
