Native American Heritage Month

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Native American Heritage Month aims to celebrate the rich culture and history of Indigenous Americans. It began as a holiday in 1915 founded by Dr. Arthur C. Parker, a Seneca Indian and  director of the Museum Arts & Science in Rochester, N.Y.. In 1990, it became a month-long holiday.

Native American culture is born of the land, and we gratefully acknowledge that Austin Community College occupies the Indigenous ancestral homelands of the Coahuiltecan, Jumanos, Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche), Kiikaapoi, Mascogo, Ndé Kónitsąąíí Gokíyaa (Lipan Apache), Sana and Tonkawa, as well as all other vibrant Native communities who communed with this land or make their home here today. The college resides on land ceded in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.