Celebrating our Native American and Indigenous Communities

In November, we recognize and celebrate Native American and Indigenous community members in our college. This is a time to celebrate cultures, traditions, and histories, as well as to acknowledge the important contributions of the original inhabitants of North America. We also seek to bring awareness to our engineering community about Native tribes and the unique challenges Native people have faced, both historically and in the present.

This page includes resources on our Native American and Indigenous communities. Let us seek “” with one another and respect the value of Indigenous science, engineering, and traditional knowledge this month and every month.

��«��Ƶ Land Acknowledgment

The ��«��Ƶ, Colorado’s flagship university, honors and recognizes the many contributions of Indigenous peoples in our state. CU ��«��Ƶ acknowledges that it is located on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute and many other Native American nations. Their forced removal from these territories has caused devastating and lasting impacts. While the ��«��Ƶ can never undo or rectify the devastation wrought on Indigenous peoples, we commit to improving and enhancing engagement with Indigenous peoples and issues locally and globally.

We will do this by:

Recognizing and amplifying the voices of Indigenous CU ��«��Ƶ students, staff and faculty and their work.
Educating, conducting research, supporting student success and integrating Indigenous knowledge.
Consulting, engaging and working collaboratively with tribal nations to enhance our ability to provide access and culturally sensitive support and to recruit, retain and graduate Native American students in a climate that is inclusive and respectful.

VR: Heritage & Engineering

Annalise Hildebrand (MechEngr’23)
Member of the Menominee Nation and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society

Upcoming Events

Creating the Future

CU ��«��Ƶ’s AISES chapter sweeps First Nations Launch Moon Challenge 2023

Nazhoné Morgan: Code and Culture

PhD student Skyler Kern optimizes computational models to better understand the marine ecosystem

New Indigenous art flourishes CU Engineering Center

Communities

American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)

The Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS)

Scholarship Opportunities

Resources

Colorado Places: Their Native American Names is a project to document in one place all the Indigenous place names known for Colorado.
- Indigenous artists and activists united to pass MMIR SB22-150, sponsored by four Colorado lawmakers, which aimed to specifically address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people in Colorado.
features a sampling of work by 47 Native Nations poets through an interactive ArcGIS Story Map and a newly developed Library of Congress audio collection.

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