October 28, 2019

HUTCHINS AND TRUJILLO: Recognized but marginalized

Author: Anthony Trujillo

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Oct. 14, Yale University issued a land acknowledgment recognizing the Native communities whose homeland our university occupies. It was a welcome gesture from an administration that continues to balk at joining the growing community of universities that officially recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The regrettable irony of the acknowledgment is that only a few weeks prior, Yale University denied support for the Native Northeast Research Collaborative (formerly, the Ya