Marquette University’s land and water acknowledgment is a statement that developed over weeks of reflection and conversation led by Indigenous student leadership with key faculty and staff. The statement recognizes the long history of Native peoples and nations that lived on and stewarded the land and water where the university now resides. It also celebrates the unbroken connection Native people and nations still have to this land and waterways, their traditional territories.
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Additional Information
- 1833 Treaty of Chicago
- Native America Collections at Marquette’s Raynor Memorial Libraries
- Writings about Native Americans in the Marquette Special Collections and Archives
- Marquette University Council on Native American Affairs
- Encyclopedia Milwaukee: Native Milwaukee
- Indian Community School
- UW-Milwaukee Electa Quinney Institute
- Indigenizing Milwaukee: A Project of Marquette University’s Indigeneity Lab
- Native lands map
- The Ways
- Great Lakes Native Lands
- Current Wisconsin Tribal Lands and Facts
- Wisconsin First Nations
- U.S. Department of the Interior, Indian Affairs
- National Congress of the American Indians
- Native Governance Center
- Honor Native Land: A Guide and Call to Acknowledgment
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