Archives for November 17, 2022

Recognizing the land during Native American Heritage Month

Originally published in the Western Carolinian November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to recognize and respect Indigenous culture. This month also recalls the dark past of colonized land.  Land acknowledgements, formal documents honoring tribal homelands, are used by institutions across America, including WCU.   WCU sits on land that was, and remains, the ancestral […]

WCU students on the topic of abortion during the 2022 elections

Story co-produced with Madison Pait With the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the summer abortion was one of the issues that made people go out to vote in this midterm elections. However the turnout was not the best and the Republican candidates won in North Carolina which might have an impact on the current […]