Macalester College is located on the homeland of the Dakota people \u2013 Mni Sota Makoce [Mini SOta Ma-KOH-chay], which translates to Land Where the Waters Reflect the Clouds. Although they were forcibly exiled by aggressive and persistent settler colonialism, the Dakota people still flourish despite this painful history. We make this acknowledgment to honor the Dakota people, ancestors, and descendants, as well as the land itself. Macalester engages in ongoing work toward repair and partnership with the Dakota people and the land, as well as to support Indigenous members of our campus community.<\/em><\/p>\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 The Native and Indigenous Staff and Faculty Collective is a community space for connection, support, and collaboration.<\/p>\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 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 The Admissions Office partners with College Horizons<\/a> to actively facilitate pathways to Macalester for Native high school students, including a summer workshop. Macalester meets 100 percent of the full demonstrated need of every student we admit, and all first-year applicants are considered for merit-based scholarships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visit the Admissions website for more information about Indigenous Communities at Macalester<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Through the generosity of contributions to the Macalester Fund\u2019s Racial Equity Support designation, the college offers funding for programs, projects, and events that advance racial justice at Macalester. All students, faculty, and staff are eligible to submit proposals. Proposals are reviewed by a committee of staff, faculty, and students. Proposals are submitted the semester prior to the event or program date. Please visit the website for proposal parameters and deadlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Macalester is partnering with Minneapolis artist Natchez Beaulieu<\/a>, Waabigwanikwe (Flower Woman), an Anishinaabekwe from the White Earth Nation, and co-designer Hapistinna Graci Horne, who was born and raised in Mnisota whose Dakota and Lakota bands are Sisseton Wahpeton, Hunkpapa, and Wahpekute, to create an acrylic mural covering the columns in the Link between the library and Old Main. This is part of our ongoing work to think critically about how we care for\u2014and educate about\u2014the Dakota land we are on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Established by President Suzanne M. Rivera in 2023, the Native and Indigenous Senior Advisory Committee provides counsel and guidance regarding Macalester initiatives. The Committee is composed of Native and Indigenous community leaders from across Minnesota, and meets with the President and Macalester leadership regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To learn about Dakota land and communities in Minneapolis and St. Paul:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n To learn about Dakota and Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) nations in Minnesota:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Land Acknowledgement Macalester College is located on the homeland of the Dakota people \u2013 Mni Sota Makoce [Mini SOta Ma-KOH-chay], which translates to Land Where the Waters Reflect the Clouds. Although they were forcibly exiled by aggressive and persistent settler colonialism, the Dakota people still flourish despite this painful history. 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Mellon MNI Grant<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Native and Indigenous Faculty and Staff Affinity Group<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Native and Indigenous Heritage Month programs<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Proud Indigenous Peoples for Education Student Organization (PIPE)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Admissions and Financial Aid<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Racial Justice Project Fund<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Indigenous Land Campus Mural<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Native and Indigenous Senior Advisory Committee to the President<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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