Blog for Gidinawemaaganinaanig: Endazhigiyang
NAHM 2023
Halito, Boozoo, relatives! We are excited to announce our inaugural Oakland University Credit Union sponsored Native American Heritage Month slate of events! All events are free and open to the public, so invite your friends. Thursday November 2, 2023 5:30-6:30pm “Seed Stories: “Native Seed Stories in Michigan: Food Sovereignty from the Ground Up” panel. Featuring…
Unsettling the Archives
Over the course of Winter Semester 2023 at Oakland University, I had the privilege to learn about Native authors and the continual fight they undertake to reduce the harmful effects of erasure—the colonial narrative that functions to erase Native history and presence—in American society. By listening to these voices, I learned what it means to…
The Importance of Holding a Mirror Up to Whiteness in the Twenty-first Century
As Americans, many of us attended K-12 public schooling and were indoctrinated by the American education system to believe, for example, that Christopher Columbus was a heroic figure. From my experience, I learned that all settlers were great people because they “discovered” and “developed” America. I attended a very small school in a rural town…
Land Blessing & Community Assessment
Gidinawemaaganinaanig Endazhigiyang came to the inter-tribal Indigenous community of Southeast Michigan after over two-hundred years in settler colonial possession. The land had been cleared by the university and then backfilled with soil from other sites of construction around campus. Situated behind a parking lot, but nestled against the Western Biological Preserve, the land had been…
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Contributors
This blog is facilitated by Dr. Megan Peiser (Choctaw) and Dr. Andrea Knutson—co-chairs of Oakland University’s Native American Advisory Committee. Guest posts by community members will feature here too!
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