BY & & ANDY STEC
NOV 9, 2023
“The common design was an effort by white settlers to
recreate the prestigious Ivy League campuses of Princeton, Harvard, and Yale,
Marler says. These kinds of landscapes are “all based on European ideals of
what is valuable and beautiful,” she says. This has conditioned Americans to
associate places of learning with European landscapes instead of local,
Indigenous ones.”
“By dismantling Indigenous landscapes, settler-colonists
reimagine them as their own. Environmental historian Traci Brynn Voyles
describes the process by which non-white lands are recast as valueless and
available for erasure as “wastelanding.”
"Thanks to the efforts of student advocates over the years,
OSU now has Native signage and Indigenous plants on campus, and in the future
there will be Indigenous cultural burning. Thinking back over her time at OSU,
Eisenberg says, “I would have never imagined that we would get to this point...”
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