
10/16/2022
On Indigenous People’s Day, campus vandalized in protest of colonialism • By Amelia Doyle & Leo Bernstein Newman
On Tuesday evening, several buildings on the Lewis & Clark undergraduate and graduate campuses were vandalized. The tags came in response to Indigenous Peoples’ Day, which is a holiday that occurs on Oct. 10 and is recognized by the state of Oregon.
LC students and staff awoke the following morning to find various buildings tagged with large messages written in graffiti. This is not the first time campus buildings have been tagged with similar messaging and iconography on Indigenous People’s Day, previously known in Oregon as Columbus Day. Previous instances have occurred on Jan. 25, 2021 and Oct. 11, 2021.
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Photo by Leo Bernstein Newman
[Image description: Graffiti on an LC academic building]