{"id":1507,"date":"2025-03-17T20:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/equity\/?page_id=1507"},"modified":"2026-09-03T18:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:37:44","slug":"land-statement-and-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/equity\/land-statement-and-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Statement and Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Land Statement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Macalester College occupies land in Mni Sota Makoce located less than five miles away from Bdote\u2014the sacred creation site of the Dakota people. Despite the persistent and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism and forcible exile, this very land we are on is cultivated, cared for, and honored since time immemorial by the Dakota, Anishinaabe, and Ho-Chunk peoples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macalester engages in ongoing work toward repair and partnership with Dakota people, land, and water, as well as to support Native and Indigenous members of our campus community. We participate in these ongoing efforts by uplifting the work and care of our campus and community members, including the Macalester Native and Indigenous Initiative, and by thinking critically about how we take responsibility for and educate about the land we are on.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We must examine our relationship to the land to understand that recognition of Native and Indigenous land, water, and peoples is not just an acknowledgement of the past. You can take action by visiting Macalester\u2019s Institutional Equity<\/a> website as well as the virtual Bdote Memory Map<\/a> to guide us in learning about next steps in this work. These actions are necessary for our current and future legacies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Native and Indigenous initiatives at Macalester<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mellon MNI Grant<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With generous support from the Mellon Foundation, the Mellon Macalester Native and Indigenous (MNI) initiative is dedicated to engagement with and scholarship around Indigenous people, culture, and history, including a Global Indigenous Studies concentration, post-doctoral scholars, an annual residency program for Indigenous experts, an Indigenous Voices series featuring speakers, artists, and activists, a Building and Caring for Community seminar, and a Three Sisters Garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Native and Indigenous Faculty and Staff Affinity Group<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Native and Indigenous Staff and Faculty Collective is a community space for connection, support, and collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Native and Indigenous Heritage Month programs<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Macalester actively works to engage with and advance scholarship around Native and Indigenous communities, histories and narratives, ways of knowing and being, and current social justice movements. During this month, we center Native and Indigenous stories and cultures, celebrate community, build awareness, and engage with Native-owned businesses, artistic endeavors, and scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proud Indigenous Peoples for Education Student Organization (PIPE)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Since its founding in the 1970s, PIPE has served as a space for building and strengthening the Indigenous student community at Macalester. PIPE serves three main goals: to exist as an unapologetically Indigenous space working to support and serve Indigenous students, to connect and engage with the broader Indigenous community in the Twin Cities, and to provide a platform for learning, education and discussion around issues that affect Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n