In support of the land acknowledgment, this website documents and facilitates Vassar’s efforts to build and sustain relationships with Native communities; expand opportunities for Native students, Native faculty and other employees; and collaborate with Native nations to know better the Indigenous peoples, past and present, who care for this land.

Native American Studies at Vassar College

The American Studies Program offers a correlate sequence in Native American Studies, a multi- and interdisciplinary field, in which students examine Indigenous cultures, politics, histories, and literatures, in a primarily North American context.

Upcoming Events

Book cover for "Squanto: A Native Odyssey" by Andrew Lipman, winner of the Bancroft Prize. The cover shows squares with a part of an image inside including a ship, castle, bird, plants and a fish.
Nov. 12, 2024, 5:30–6:30 p.m.

A book talk by Andrew Lipman ’01 in conversation with James H. Merrell, Professor Emeritus of History.

Campus community only, please.

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Land Acknowledgment

We acknowledge that Vassar stands upon the homelands of the Munsee Lenape, Indigenous peoples who have an enduring connection to this place despite being forcibly displaced by European colonization. Munsee Lenape peoples continue today as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community in Wisconsin, the Delaware Tribe and the Delaware Nation in Oklahoma, and the Munsee Delaware Nation in Ontario. Read the full statement.