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Land Acknowledgment mandate prompts formation of ad hoc committee 

An Ad Hoc Committee that was formed to move a “Living Indigenous Land Acknowledgement” mandate through university governance met March 12 to discuss the mandate and prepare it for submission to Faculty...

St. Joe's land acknowledgment plaque near Alumni Hall on the UCity campus, Nov. 27.
PHOTO: MADELINE WILLIAMS ’26/THE HAWK

St. Joe’s land acknowledgment in limbo

While St. Joe’s has yet to publish an official land acknowledgment statement recognizing the Lenape land the university is built upon, a plaque on the University City campus does just that. The...

Editorial: Call for a land acknowledgment (Dec. 6th)

The Hawk Staff December 6, 2023

University land acknowledgment statements are intended to honor and respect the Indigenous tribes that have lived on the land on which institutions and universities are built, oftentimes as a byproduct...

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