Native Welcome Reception 2021

Join us at the Indian Encampment Site (People’s Park by Wells Hall and the International Center) for a welcome feast! Enjoy wild rice soup, corn soup, Indian tacos, and strawberry shortcake with Native community members and organizations. The first fifty students will receive goodie bags!

Chi miigwech to Moore Trosper Construction Company for generously supporting this event.

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The Indian Encampment Site (above) was home to an Anishinaabe community at the time of Michigan State University’s founding and throughout MSU’s early years.

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William A Johnsen is Professor and Editor in the Department of English at Michigan State University. He is the author of Violence and Modernism. Ibsen, Joyce and Woolf (2003) and many articles on modern Irish, British, European literature and theory. He is the current editor of Contagion, the journal of The Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R) as well as two book series, Studies in Violence Mimesis and Culture (SVMC) and Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory (BMT), all published at MSU Press.