University of Wisconsin-Green Bay: Earth honoring brings together past, current and future generations in cofrin technology and education center event
Green Bay, WI – An Earth Honoring was held this morning on the UW-Green Bay campus, bringing together members of the First Nations communities and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay to celebrate the beginning of the Cofrin Technology and Education Center (CTEC) construction. The Menominee Nation and the Ho-Chunk Nation are the original inhabitants of the region where UW-Green Bay now resides, and Menominee elder (Napos) and Ho-Chunk elder (Ritchie Brown) opened the event with words of recognition for the Earth and the natural world. The Wisconsin Dells drum group (Ho-Chunk Nation) offered honor songs for the Earth and all present.
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UW-Green Bay Student Government Association President Karime Galaviz, Miron Construction CFO Dean Basten, UW-Green Bay Chancellor Michael Alexander and Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman also spoke at the event.
