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Hope everyone is having a good semester, it’s hard to believe we’re already to reading days!
We will also celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ day this Monday in the Multicultural Student Center.
Be sure to let us know you’ll be there!
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On National Day of Remembrance for U.S. Indian Boarding Schools, we honor the children who never returned home and reflect on the impact of multigenerational Native communities. This trauma is one generation removed from my family — the legacy of boarding schools affects so many.
Tues. 5/11: @UVa_LifetimeLrn will explore how food plays significant part in cultural survival of 2 Indigenous communities: Inka empire in South America & Native American women in Oklahoma. @UVA_College@AMST_UVA@cvilleAIA@NasuUva Register: https://t.co/xuHuOmotar
Today, May 5th, is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Join us today in honoring and remembering our stolen sisters. #mmiw#mmiwg#nomorestolensisters
The Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at UVA mourns the loss of Asian lives in Atlanta and we stand in firm solidarity with Asian and APIDA students, faculty, staff, and local community members.
To read the full statement, visit our website at https://t.co/pS6iZ7ZnpL
In collaboration with @plumas_at_uva and @NasuUva, CAFÉ will be cohosting a movie screening of the biography of Berta Cáceres this Wednesday, March 3rd at 6:00pm. We invite you all to learn about her life and her fight for ancestral lands! Link to register is in our bio!
Born on March 4th 1971, she dedicated her life to the defense of land, natural resources, and Indigenous people’s human rights to their ancestral territories.
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PLUMAS Education Cohort, NASU, and CAFÉ invite the community to join us Wednesday, March 3rd to learn about and discuss the life of Berta Càceres, one of Honduras’ leading Indigenous activists who was assassinated on March 3rd, 2016.