The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cayuga-nation/)
During an in-person meeting Thursday, the Student Assembly gathered to discuss a restrictive abortion law recently passed by Texas, a Cayuga Nation governance dispute and the formation of a new Office of Ethics.
Over a century after Cornell was founded, an official land acknowledgment recognizing the University’s location on the homeland of Cayuga Nation was presented at all four 2021 commencement ceremonies.
But underneath this cleaned up image of inspiration is her oft-ignored legacy that is defined by violence against Indigenous people. Ginsburg is another cog in the capitalist system of the United States that was built on genocide and enslavement, and an enemy of the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island.
Cornell announced the names of three new North Campus residence halls that will soon welcome students as part of the North Campus Residential Expansion.
Cornell is one of many land-grant universities called upon to take responsibility for its role in the dispossession of land from native American Indians.
The Cayuga Nation Council seized and demolished 12 buildings at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday morning in Seneca Falls, New York –– the result of a dispute between two tribal factions, both claiming to lead the Cayuga Nation.
“We need to make space for Indigenous voices in institutions like this and we have to value and take seriously, Indigenous-led initiatives and going forward in institutions like this,” Black told The Sun in an interview.
This fall, Cornell introduced a new course in which students can learn the traditional language Gayogo̱hó:nǫ and culture of the Cayuga Nation, the Indigenous community whose land Cornell’s Ithaca campus was founded on.
At a forum on Wednesday, Karl Hill of the Cayuga Nation and Darwin Hill of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation described the history of unwavering efforts to bring the Declaration to fruition.
The City of Ithaca sought to change this in order to recognize that the indigenous people were on the land known as the Americas prior to Columbus’s arrival.