Native American Initiative | Emory University

Dear Prospective Indigenous Student,

We are excited you are considering Emory University, located on Muscogee (Creek) land as your campus home. We welcome you to our growing Indigenous student community that is eager to support you! We invite you to learn more about the ad hoc committee at Emory working to amplify Native voices on campus as well as creating more visibility and awareness of Native American and Alaska Native issues. We welcome your valuable perspective, lived experiences and stories to build a more inclusive campus community. We understand this is an important choice for you, your family and community. You can learn more about our work through this report. If you want to know more about Emory, we encourge you to contact us.

Land Acknowledgement

Emory University is located on Muscogee (Creek) land.
Emory was founded in 1836, during a period of sustained oppression, land dispossession, and forced removal of Muscogee (Creek) and Ani’yunwi’ya (Cherokee) peoples from Georgia and the Southeast. Emory owes an immense debt to the Muscogee, Ani’yunwi’ya and other original peoples, and their descendants, who have cared for and inhabited these lands.

This acknowledgement was developed by faculty from the Native American and Indigenous Student Initiative Committee, through consultation with leading historians of this region. It represents the view of the committee and is not a formal Emory University statement.

Read the full Land Acknowledgement and History Statement developed by Emory faculty.

Program Leaders

Craig Womack

Associate Professor of English

(Muscogee Creek)
Emory courses taught by Professor Womack:

Federal Policy in Native American Novels
Intersections of Native and African American Studies
Literature and Activism
Jazz and the American Novel

Beth Michel

Associate Dean of Admission and Lead for Native American & Alaska Native Outreach

(Tohono O'odham Nation Citizen)

Debra Vidali

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Emory courses taught by Professor Vidali:

Indigenous Peoples of North America
From Fieldwork into Performance
Experimental Ethnography
Public Anthropology
Decolonizing Theory & Practice

Dear Prospective Indigenous Student,

Land Acknowledgement

Program Leaders

Craig Womack

Associate Professor of English

Beth Michel

Associate Dean of Admission and Lead for Native American & Alaska Native Outreach

Debra Vidali

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Megan E. O'Neil

Assistant Professor of Art History; Faculty Curator, Art of the Americas, Michael C. Carlos Museum

Mandy Suhr-Sytsma

Senior Lecturer, Department of English; Director, Emory Writing Center

Christine Ristaino

Senior Lecturer, Department of French and Italian

Resources

At Emory

Beyond Emory

Tribes with Ancestral Lands in the Southeast

NAI 2018 Symposium