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As the University continues to expand its new minors program, students have voiced concerns regarding how well it addresses their diverse and specific academic interests.
Despite years of advocacy, the timeline for an Indigenous Studies minor program remains uncertain, according to faculty and students involved with Indigenous communities on campus. While the University announced in 2020 that it would institute an endowed professorship of Indigenous Studies, the position has yet to be filled.
In an interview with the ‘Prince,’ Elizabeth Ellis, professor of history and enrolled citizen of the Peoria tribe of Oklahoma, stated that “My sense, globally, is that [the Indigenous Studies minor] is something that everybody wants, and that the University is committed to building a course of study … the big question is timeline.”
The lack of Indigenous Studies at the University may be a shortcoming, since peer institutions such as Stanford, Dartmouth, and the University of Texas at Austin all offer undergraduate majors in Native American studies.
In an interview with the ‘Prince,’ co-president of Natives at Princeton (NAP), Gustavo Blanco-Quiroga ’25 stated, “If we really want to make Princeton a world class university like the world claims [it] to be, I think that we have to also include some Indigenous knowledge in the classroom.”
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Analysis by Kia Ghods and Aly Rashid
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