CAHSS STORIES

Category: American Indian Studies

Tribal Zoning, Sovereignty in Action

December 11, 2023

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Professor Margo Hill, JD, & Adjunct Professor J.D. Tovey III published an article titled Tribal Zoning, Sovereignty in Action that covers Federal Indian Law and Jurisdiction in the American Planning Association’s Zoning Practice magazine following a presentation they gave last year in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the National American Planning Association conference. “Planners cannot understand or

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Street Renaming in the Wake of National Decolonization Efforts

February 15, 2022

Street Renaming in the Wake of National Decolonization Efforts

EWU’s Associate Professor, Margo Hill, published her article No Honor in Genocide: A Case Study of Street Renaming and Community Organizing in the Wake of National Decolonization Efforts in the Gonzaga Journal of Hate Studies. The case study provides an example wherein Indigenous people have objected to a place-name that honors genocide and thus consequently

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Rally at Riverfront Park

December 15, 2021

Rally at Riverfront Park

Margo Hill, a member of the Spokane Tribe of Indians and an Eastern Washington University professor, was among about 40 people who attended a fall rally to advocate for the removal of the statue of John Robert Monaghan, in downtown Spokane. The familiar statue of Monaghan sits at the corner of Riverside Avenue and Monroe

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