On Native American Heritage Day, the White House and U.S. Marines honored the invaluable contributions of Native peoples and Native American Marines in defense of our country.
According to the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, LeRoy Malaterre of the Indiana Chippewa served as the master of ceremonies for the first annual Native American Heritage Festival Day held in Indianapolis in 2009/
President Barack Obama signed “The Native American Heritage Day Resolution” designating the Friday after Thanksgiving as “Native American Heritage Day.”
This month, the University of Minnesota Morris held a teach-in about the history and impact of Native American boarding schools, including the ones that operated on their campus site, on Nov. 18 in Imholte Hall.
Educational speakers billed for the event were Gabe Desrosiers, Anishinaabe; Dorothy Jeffery; and Dennis Jeffy Diné.
Today, UMN Morris is the only federally recognized four-year Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution in the Upper Midwest.
The University of Minnesota Morris campus is situated on original Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and Dakota and Lakota (Sioux) homelands.
The campus was founded in 1887 as a Native American boarding school.
When the US Bureau of the Interior turned over the building and lands of the boarding school to the State of Minnesota in 1909 to establish the agricultural boarding high school (1910–63), it was with the stipulation that American Indian students would be admitted on the same conditions as other students, and tuition-free.
When the Minnesota State Legislature established the Morris campus of the University of Minnesota in 1959 as a selective public liberal arts college, this same stipulation remained.
UMN Morris upholds the federal- and state-mandated tuition waiver tied to the transfer of the campus from the federal government to the State of Minnesota and admits eligible American Indian students tuition-free.
Today, we celebrate, #NativeAmericanHeritageDay, an opportunity to reflect on the outstanding service of Native American Marines in defense of our nation. pic.twitter.com/M4WfABnhLL
— U.S. Marines (@USMC) November 24, 2023
Did you know that the University of Minnesota-Morris was a boarding school for Indigenous children targeted to erase Native American culture? URL Media revisits @SahanJournal report on a student petition to search the grounds for lost burial sites. https://t.co/XfuDtQUXVc
— URL Media (@url_media) January 13, 2022
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