A team of faculty members, staff, and students are working to develop a degree program that will encourage a greater understanding of Native Americans and Indigenous peoples.
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A flyer advertises the first course in the University of Miami s new indigenous studies program.
Caroline LaPorte said she never met another Native American student when she was in law school at the University of Miami.
A descendant of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, LaPorte graduated in 2014 and now serves as a judicial advisor for the Seminole Tribe of Florida. You re situated in between, and on, the ancestral lands of two modern, federally-recognized tribes and you don t have student representation from either of them? LaPorte said, referring to the Seminoles as well as the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida.