MARQUETTE, MI— NMU President Kerri Schuiling will help the Center for Native American Studies celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day on campus Monday.
They and the Native American Student Association will host an event starting at 10 a.m. at the Land Acknowledgement Sign on the academic mall. Marquette drumming group Morning Thunder will perform. They will be followed by comments from Schuiling, Professor April Lindala, and Damon Panek, an Anishinaabe wildland firefighter who possesses traditional knowledge and speaks the language. He's the father of NASA President Sophie Panek.
The event will conclude with a march from the Land Acknowledgement Sign to NMU's Fire Site in the Whitman Woods.
The public is invited to attend.
