Indigenous Students
This page is in development and currently focuses on documenting the steps Carleton has taken to fulfill the promise of “honest storytelling” from our land acknowledgement, to build relationships with the Indigenous communities that are our neighbors, and to understand Carleton’s campus, the city of Northfield, and its region as Dakota Homelands. Suggestions for material focused specifically on Indigenous students and their learning are very welcome!
Carleton Resources
Indigenous Student Experience at Carleton
LTC Lunch video 2/25/2023
Carleton, the Dakota, and the Dakota Homelands. 2021 Study Groups
Land Acknowledgement Video
Meredith McCoy, Assistant Professor of American Studies and History, gave this presentation at the Northfield Public Library.
This is their Land
Article from the Winter 2022 Carleton Voice
Carleton Elder-in-Residence Pilot Program
Hard Truths and Healing: Dr. Denise Lajimodiere’s week-long residency
Carleton News article
Indigenous Peoples History
A library guide from Gould Library
Indigenous Representations at Carleton and in the Arb
A class project from Archaeology 246
Religions of Minnesota
Ongoing digital humanities project from the Religion Department with sections on Native American religions (Dakota and Objibwe).
CAMS 270: Nonfiction and “Why Treaties Matter”
Students created videos to be used in Carleton’s New Student Week on Indigenous histories and communities and collaborated with local Indigenous organizations to tell their stories.
Experiencing the Local Landscape: Carls “Learning from Place” with Bdote
Public Works project
Second Bdote Memory Tour
Bdote tour integrated into courses, Educational Studies 338: “Multicultural Education” and History 338: “Digital History, Public Heritage, and Deep Mapping”
Indigenous Histories at Carleton
Library guide for Professor McCoy’s History 301.
Dakota Ethnobotany in the Carleton College Cowling Arboretum
Cowling Arboretum guide focusing on how plants found in the arboretum were historically used by the tribes of our region.
Learning Across the Miles: Sharing the Structure of Dakota Course
LTC Lunch video 9/25/2018
Indigenous Communities Liaison
Marcy Averill: maverill@carleton.edu | 507-222-4587
Materials from Other Colleges, Universities, and Organizations
- Prairie Island Indian Community website
- Hoċokata Ti , the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s Cultural Center
- Rice County Historical Society webpage on First Peoples
- Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World. Edited by Django Paris and H. Samy Alim. New York: Teachers College Press, 2017.
- Conrad, Clifton, and Marybeth Gasman. Educating a Diverse Nation : Lessons from Minority-Serving Institutions. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Lomawaima, K.Tsianina. I Am Where I Come from: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories. Ithaca, New York: Cornell Universtiy Press, 2017.
- Article about Christopher Payne (’91): “For Christopher Payne, Mentoring Native American Students Means Better Science“
- Minnesota Digital Library. History of Survivance: Upper Midwest 19th-Century Native American Narratives. Digital Public Library of America. April 2013.
- University of Denver, Office of Teaching & Learning, Native American Pedagogies
- University of Illinois, Dean’s Diversity Lecture Series, “Reimagining Higher Education for Indigenous Students” (video)
- Megan Bang, Nikki McDaid-Morgan, and Alice Tsoodle, Creating Science Learning Environments in Which Indigenous Students Can Thrive, National Science Teaching Association (May 26, 2020)
Further Reading
- Professor Meredith McCoy‘s publications
- Professor Michael McNally‘s publications