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Projects initiated and developed by teams of Macalester staff, faculty, and students that help expand the reach in our MNI programming endeavors.

2023-2024

• Three Sisters Garden at Macalester created by alum Cait Bergeon (Menominee) in collaboration with Megan Butler (Macalester’s Sustainability Director). Supported by an incredible team of students: Meira Smit ‘25, Jenna Hawkes ‘25, Oliver Matus-Bond ‘26, and Abby White ‘26.

• Honor the Earth at 30 celebration, where �պ���Ʒ and Honor the Earth panelists talked about the future of Indigenous Environmental Justice. Panelists also shared strategies and outcomes to help educate and illuminate the path moving forward.
  • Panelists included Sii-am Hamilton (Stó:lō & Nuučaan̓uł intergenerational land defender and non-violent direct action trainer/ organizer); Ta’Kaiya Blaney (Tli’amin First Nation, language advocate and direct action organizer); Denzel Sutherland-Wilson (Gitxsan land defender and traditional craftsman); Anpo Jensen (Oglala Lakota environmental engineer and treaty rights advocate); and the keynote speaker was Krystal Two Bulls (Oglala Lakota & Northern Cheyenne organizer and Executive Director of Honor the Earth)
• Performance of American Ledger No. 1 by Raven Chacon (Diné), to be conducted byDameun Strange ’95 on Saturday, March 2, 2024. The performanceis a public program of Deathpower, a group exhibition curated by Erin Gleeson (February 9 – March 20, 2024). The event is generously supported by the Macalester Native and Indigenous (MNI) Initiative and FD13 residency for the arts. 
• “Acts of Resistance: Zapotec Scholarship,” Professor Christina Esposito, Linguistics: Poetry reading with Felipe H. Lopez (October 2023), Xochitl Flores-Marcial of the Ticha Project.
• “Learning from Place,” Professor Dan Trudeau, Geography
  Faculty, staff, and students attended the Bdote: Learning from Place workshop (October 2023).
• “New Approaches to Research on Racism with Youth,” a community visit with Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang (March 2024), Professor Brian Lozenski (Educational Studies) and Cait Bergeon (Faculty Engagement Associate).
• “Native Ecologies: EnviroThursday Speaker Series” Professors Kiri Sailiata (American Studies) and Chris Wells (Environmental Studies). Native and Indigenous Speakers Series: Diane Wilson, Deondre Smiles (Leech Lake).

2022-2023

• Hosted Voices From Pejuhutazizi book reading and Q&A
  • Book reading and Q&A with author Walter (Super) LaBatte Jr. [Mac class of 1970] and co-author Teresa Peterson
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• Hosted a community read of Voices From Pejuhutazizi, which included a visit from Jim Bear Jacobs