A community engagement project at Franklin & Marshall College exploring indigeneity, settler colonialism, and the land question.
Reckoning with Lancaster
WHY RECKONING? WHY NOW?
Our project explores Indigenous community and settler colonialism in a context of erasure—a region and state that has no recognized Indigenous groups, but a place where Indigenous peoples exist and thrive.
From its two namesakes to its Lancaster context, Franklin & Marshall College played an unexpected role in the settlement and assimilation that our research is bringing to light.
This project brings faculty researchers, students, and community leaders together to reckon: how do we read our region’s history of welcome against the grain? What does meaningful community outreach look like from an institution built in the forge of the American colony? What kinds of futures can we imagine together?
OUR TEAM
Toward a new era of college-community engagement
Indigeneity
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Settler Colonialism
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The Land Question
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Indigeneity · Settler Colonialism · The Land Question ·
Indigeneity
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Settler Colonialism
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The Land Question
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Indigeneity · Settler Colonialism · The Land Question ·
OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WORK
Sightings
"Reckoning" project featured in LNP, Lancaster's local newspaper. Article by Jack Brubaker.
From F&M's student newspaper, The College Reporter: "Stories on Lakota History, Language, and the Boarding School Experience," by Teagan Durkin
A write-up of the project's "Loss of Turtle Island" event in United Methodist Insight. Article by John Coleman.
The November 2024 edition of our project's monthly newsletter, led by Mary Ann Levine and designed by Samantha Binkley, with contributions from project co-leads and participants.
December 2024 project newsletter, edited by Mary Ann Levine and designed by Samantha Binkley.