Observing Indigenous Peoples Day 2024
October 14, 2024
October 14, 2024
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Oct. 14 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:
To the university community,
Virginia Tech resides on the homeland of the Tutelo/Monacan Peoples, financed and founded through the forced removal of Native nations via the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862. Today, we recognize this history, the Native peoples' continued relationships with their lands and waterways, and their sovereignty. We commit to changing the trajectory of Virginia Tech t . . .
To the university community,
Virginia Tech resides on the homeland of the Tutelo/Monacan Peoples, financed and founded through the forced removal of Native nations via the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862. Today, we recognize this history, the Native peoples' continued relationships with their lands and waterways, and their sovereignty. We commit to changing the trajectory of Virginia Tech t . . .