Indigenous Heritage Month

Join us in commemorating Indigenous Heritage Month 2024 as we recenter love and commitment to each other through this year's theme: The Language of Community: Building Kinship. Through this theme we recognize and synthesize existing frameworks of connection, activating them to strengthen each other as we figure out how to exist in this particular time and space as Indigenous people. We also recognize the ways in which colonization has dehumanized non-Indigenous people and name the healing of these wounds as both necessary decolonization work and something everyone is deserving of. We encourage everyone to engage with this month and its programs in the ways that they need.

We celebrate this theme under the banner of “Indigenous Heritage Month” to reject the prioritization of Indigenous people based on their proximity to colonial entities. We do this as an affirmation of our own full and rich humanity as well as a reminder of the duties we carry to examine the ways in which we navigate the systems built around us; surfacing complicity, challenging ourselves to truly see each other, and rejecting the idea that the World as it is holds more power than the World we choose to build.

Co-sponsored with the Zowie Banteah Cultural Center, the Division of Student Life, Office of Community and Belonging, and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.