The Mellon Foundation has awarded Hamilton College a $750,000 grant to establish a program in American Indian and Indigenous Studies.
This grant will support efforts to fulfill one of the College’s original missions: to provide an immersive and inclusive education in American Indian and Indigenous Studies and to significantly amplify the efforts of Hamilton to build a sustainable partnership and productive collaborations with the Oneida Indian Nation.
Funding will support innovative course development, cultural programming, and collaborative research between faculty, students, and members of the Oneida Indian Nation.
This grant will also provide the resources to integrate Indigenous knowledge systems, history, and contemporary issues into Hamilton’s curriculum.
Hamilton College was founded in 1793 as a school for local American Indian and colonial settler children on land originally given by ...