Carleton College is excited to announce Indigenous Engagement in Place, a three-year initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. This project will expand curricular and scholarly collaborations with Indigenous partners to enliven learning, teaching, and public scholarship in the humanities and across the liberal arts.
“Indigenous Engagement in Place” emerges from Carleton’s attempts to live into our land acknowledgment through honest storytelling and respectful relationships with Dakota and Ojibwe peoples. Recent activities include:
- Academic Civic Engagement (ACE) courses and projects have deepened partnerships between Indigenous organizations and tribal partners, faculty, staff, and students.
- Convocations, workshops, museum exhibitions, and other recent campus-wide events have helped tell the diverse stories of Indigenous peoples.
- The College issued a land acknowledgement in 2020.
- Carleton hosted its first presidential delegation from a Native Nation with a visit by the Prairie Island Tribal Council president and other members in October 2021.
- An Indigenous student organization was rechartered in 2021.
- Carleton hired Marcy Averill as our inaugural Indigenous Communities Liaison in September 2022.