The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/native-american/)
Cornell’s decrease in Black, Hispanic and Indigenous first-year enrollment following the end of affirmative action has posed recruitment challenges for academic racial affinity groups.
Climate Justice Cornell, Cornell on Fire and Native American Indigenous and Indigenous Students at Cornell gathered on the Arts Quad for a demonstrative art build and protest to support clean energy and the repatriation of mineral rights on sacred native land in Wisconsin.
Akwe:kon reflects a valuable community space and it’s extremely disheartening that more universities don’t provide a space like it.
Dryden Town Board passes resolution urging the removal of Clint Halftown as the Bureau of Indian Affairs Representative of the Cayuga Nation.
The Student Assembly addressed a resolution related to Cornell’s ties to the Ithaca Police Department.
Some of the demands includes renaming of Morrill Hall and returning University land in Ithaca that isn’t “immediately utilized for educational purposes.”
almost 1 million acres of dispossessed American Indian land, sold to form the basis of Cornell’s endowment — a sum of almost $6 million by 1914, equivalent to $150 million today.
The sale of almost 1 million acres of dispossessed American Indian land formed the basis of Cornell’s endowment — a sum of almost $6 million by 1914, equivalent to $150 million today.
“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.
The 2019 Ivy Native Conference, which will involve academics, fashion designers and indigenous students across the Ivy League, will take place at Cornell from March 22-24.
“We can march, but we get media blackouts. We can do what we’re trying to do and have a lot of people show up, but at the end of the day, our voices aren’t heard,” Kyrie Ransom ’18.