Universities won’t give back the land — but they will bury history

Universities won’t give back the land — but they will bury history

Anyone who has spent time on a university campus recently has likely been forced to sit through a Native American land acknowledgment.At Arizona State University, one plays on repeat as guests wait for graduation ceremonies to begin. Faculty in my college must sit through the ritual before we can even start business meetings.The proper response to historical injustice is not to destroy historical evidence. It is to preserve it, study it honestly…