When freshmen filed into Frost Amphitheater for convocation on Sept. 16, 2025, they heard speeches, performances and welcomes to Stanford. What they didn’t hear — though many wouldn’t have known to notice — was the land acknowledgement honoring the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe on whose ancestral lands the University sits. For Puali’i Zidek ’27, co-chair of [...]The post Without acknowledgment: Stanford’s indigenous community speaks out against institutional erasure appeared first on The Stanford Daily.
Without acknowledgment: Stanford’s indigenous community speaks out against institutional erasure