Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

PROFILE: Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner Wants to Break the Cycle of Indigenous Erasure

PROFILE: Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner Wants to Break the Cycle of Indigenous Erasure

By Liberty Phelan, Melinda Reed, and Liana Hardy April 7, 2022

Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner, one of Georgetown University’s only two Indigenous professors, grew up believing that her tribe’s language, 'atáaxum pomtéela, had died out. “When I was a kid, in...

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