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Georgetown University campus tour guides will no longer read Indigenous land acknowledgements during tours following new guidance from the Office of Admissions.

GU Admissions Ends Campus Tour Guide Land Acknowledgments

By Ajani Stella and Maren Fagan October 9, 2025

Georgetown University’s admissions office directed student tour guides to stop giving land acknowledgments during their tours, according to multiple sources and emails obtained by The Hoya.  The...

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...

PODCAST: Core Pathways students discuss their podcast series “Pathways for People and Planet”

PODCAST: Core Pathways students discuss their podcast series “Pathways for People and Planet”

By Mia Rasamny February 25, 2022

https://soundcloud.com/multimedia-editor/final-core-pathways/s-JWIUYopWb6B?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Candice Powers (COL '22) and Cleo Gates (COL '22)...

Native American Student Council Calls for GU Land Acknowledgment, Indigenous Peoples Day Recognition

Native American Student Council Calls for GU Land Acknowledgment, Indigenous Peoples Day Recognition

By Ingrid Matteini October 14, 2021

The Native American Student Council (NASC) called on Georgetown University to issue a land acknowledgment and officially recognize Indigenous Peoples Day. On Oct. 11, NASC — a student group that...

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