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Oral History of Forgottonia: Building a Public History Project in Rural Western Illinois

NCHE

These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.” As part of the NCHE project, The Rural Experience in America , history club students at Cuba High School created a podcast about a local history topic of their choosing.

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How one Minnesota university more than doubled its native student graduation rate

The Hechinger Report

The universities they enroll in were in many cases built on land stolen from native people, to serve Western notions of education. Joan Gabel, the new president of the University of Minnesota system, says that American Indians are regularly left out of conversations on inclusion in higher education.

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