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Education October 10, 2022 - 12:10 pm

Me̱ꞌpha̱a̱: An Indigenous Mexican community in Lawrence is saving their language from extinction

by Jordan Winter

A local community of immigrants from Guerrero, Mexico, have teamed up with a coalition of KU professors to reclaim Me̱ꞌpha̱a̱: one of many Indigenous languages endangered by colonialism and the cultural erasure it’s inflicted for centuries.

Education September 30, 2022 - 4:52 pm

Boarding schools for Native American children left ‘a lot of wounds’ that are still fresh today, panelists say

by Mackenzie Clark

The harms of federal Native American boarding schools did not stop when those who survived eventually left them, panelists said during a virtual forum Friday afternoon.

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