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Utah has been specifically identified as one of the states with the highest number of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Courtesy Flickr)

Barron: Incomplete Data Costs Indigenous Lives. One Utah Legislator Has a Plan to Fill in the Gaps.

By Morgan Barron, Opinion Writer February 29, 2020

  In 2008, the Department of Justice released sickening statistics regarding violence toward Native American women. They found that Native Americans disappear at twice the rate per capita compared...

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Appropriation or Appreciation? Social Justice Advocates Host ‘Utah Fan Am I’

By Natalie Colby, Editor-in-Chief September 26, 2019

The sixth annual “Utah Fan Am I” event was hosted by the Housing and Residential Office and Social Justice Advocates on Sept. 24 in the Peterson Heritage Center. It kicked off the six-part series put...

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Phasing Out Latter-day Saints’ Pageant Traditions

By Miacel Spotted Elk, News Writer March 24, 2019

  Last year, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced they will cancel more than half of their religious pageants across the country. The already affected pageants included Clarkston...

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Eat a Cloud This Season: Navajo Tacos Are the Fluffy Treat You Need to Warm Up

By Madge Slack December 4, 2018

  Fry bread has inspired songs, films, T-shirts and taste buds for over 150 years. It became a staple of the Native American diet after they were forced to migrate on the “Long Walk,” a 300-mile...

Name One: Native American Celebrities

Name One: Native American Celebrities

By Josh Petersen November 27, 2018

  Try this thought experiment: Name one major Native American celebrity. For me, this task was alarmingly difficult. The people I could think of were either barely famous or historical figures...

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Culture Powwow Celebrates Tribal Practices

By Kylee Ehmann April 12, 2015

The normal quiet of lower campus on a weekend was broken as hundreds of American Indians from Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming came to the Union for two days of traditional foods, songs and dances. The...

(Photo by Kiffer Creveling)

Social Justice Group Addresses Native American Culture

December 1, 2014

  “We are probably, of all the ethnicities in the United States, the most misrepresented and the most misunderstood,” said Franci Taylor. Taylor, the director of the U’s American Indian Resource...

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Ute Indian Tribe Scholarship to Debut at End of Semester

September 15, 2014

  A signed agreement formed in April between the U and the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation is now turning into action. Mary Parker, associate vice president for enrollment management,...