Volume 23, Number 1
Director's Message
Portrait of Cindy Montañez by Kiara Aileen Machado
As 2024 draws to a close, I reflect with profound gratitude on the vibrant community we’ve cultivated and the meaningful work we’ve accomplished together at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC). The unwavering dedication of our network—scholars, students, and community members alike—to advancing knowledge about historically underrepresented communities and their self-determination continues to inspire me every day.
At the same time, I remain mindful of the challenges ahead. The recent election highlighted deep divisions in our nation and underscored stark differences in visions for the future. In this shifting political climate with evolving policies and an uncertain funding landscape, many—particularly the most vulnerable—face significant risks to their well-being, rights, and opportunities. In these tumultuous times, the CSRC stands firm in its mission to amplify the voices and diverse experiences of Latina/o/x and other underrepresented communities through impactful scholarship and programming. For fifty-five years, we have served as a critical bridge between the university and the community, fostering research and translating it into practice to inform meaningful change.
Recently I have been reflecting upon the legacy of trailblazers like Cindy Montañez, a UCLA alumna whose extraordinary contributions we celebrated at “Latina Futures and the Environment,” our Día de los Muertos tribute to Cindy Montañez and unfinished struggles for justice. [View highlight video.] Cindy’s remarkable career—from her leadership in the 1993 UCLA Hunger Strike, which led to the creation of the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, to her impactful work in public office and environmental advocacy—reminds us of the power of strategic collective action. Her ability to draw on academic knowledge, mobilize diverse constituencies, and effect systemic change provides a powerful blueprint for how we can continue to move forward.
Now, more than ever, the CSRC is uniquely positioned to strengthen the vital connections between the university and the community. Thanks to the advocacy of faculty leaders and the university’s investments as it progresses toward becoming a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), we continue to play a central role in recruiting and building community among faculty whose academic interests are deeply connected to Latina/o/x communities. Since 2022, UCLA has hired twenty-three faculty whose scholarship, teaching, and student mentoring have ties to Latina/o/x communities. And many of our existing and new faculty have been forging meaningful collaborations with community partners. Our most recent administration of Latinx Seed Grants is supporting eleven faculty who are conducting critical research that addresses the pressing issues facing Latina/o/x communities today.
New UCLA faculty at the CSRC Faculty Advisory Committee Reception, October 21, 2024
Our Latina Futures 2050 Lab exemplifies the transformative potential of our work. This year, over twenty-five scholars commissioned through the Lab made significant strides in their research on Latina experiences. Our published research reports assess not only the profound wage gap experienced by Latinas, who are the lowest-paid group of women in the labor force, but also their growing political power. Through these studies, we are bringing attention to the challenges and the opportunities that shape Latinas’ lives. Additionally, our library continues to preserve and share archives that spotlight Latina voices, ensuring that their stories are accessible to the public now and for future generations.
Cover art from research brief, October 2024
Our commitment to community-engaged research remains central to our programming. This fall we published reports on the challenges faced by and the aspirations of young people in Oxnard, California, including those from Mexican and Central American Indigenous backgrounds. These studies underscore the critical need for greater resources to help youth achieve their educational and career goals. Furthermore, this research highlights the importance of fostering civic engagement, which can equip the younger generations with the tools to understand and address social inequalities that prevent many from thriving. We congratulate two of our community partners, Future for Lompoc Youth in the Lompoc Valley and Gente Organizada in Pomona, for their recent successful efforts in engaging young people in grassroots voter education campaigns that will result in new investments in institutions that serve young people. As we make plans for the upcoming year, the CSRC is further investing in research and programming that will help ensure that young people become informed voters and advocates for all, including members of our community who are struggling economically and immigrants who face a blocked pathway to citizenship.
CSRC reports on youth in Oxnard, California, Fall 2024
Looking ahead to 2025, the CSRC will remain steadfast in its purpose. Like Cindy Montañez, the CSRC’s founders, and countless others who have advocated for equity and social justice, we will tune in to the struggles of our communities to guide the direction of our work. And we will do our part to contribute to data-driven analyses, support educational programming, and provide a convening space in service of advancing Latina/o/x studies and the practical application of our scholarly endeavors.
During this holiday season, I hope you find joy, rest, and renewed energy to continue contributing to your communities. Together, we will meet the challenges ahead with determination and hope.
In community,
Veronica Terriquez
Director and Professor
OPPORTUNITIES
2024-2025 Faculty Hiring – UCLA Hispanic-Serving Institution Infrastructure Initiative
The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) is thrilled to promote current faculty searches in partnership with academic departments as part of the UCLA Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Infrastructure Initiative. UCLA aims to achieve federal designation as a Hispanic Serving Institution as early as 2025. In preparation for this designation, the Office of the Chancellor and the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost have sponsored these searches in order to recruit exceptional scholars whose teaching, scholarship and/or mentoring have strong ties to Latinx experiences in the United States. Faculty hired through these searches are expected to maintain an active affiliation to the CSRC and encourage the success of U.S.-based Latinx and first-generation scholars.
Nursing: Cluster Hire: Assistant and Associate Professor in Latina/o Life
First review date: Dec. 19, 2024
Final date: May 30, 2025
Spanish & Portuguese: Assistant Professor, U.S. Latina/o Literature and Culture
Next Review Date: Dec. 23, 2024
Final Date: Dec. 30, 2024
Chemistry & Biochemistry: Assistant Professor
Next review date: Jan. 3, 2025
Final date: June 30, 2025
Art History: Assistant Professor, Latinx Art
Next review date: Jan. 15, 2025
Final date: Jan. 15, 2025
Mathematics: Assistant Professor
Next review date: Jan. 20, 2025
Final date: June 30, 2025
IAC Graduate and Predoctoral Fellowships in Ethnic Studies
The UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) offers a limited number of graduate/predoctoral fellowships. We encourage applications that advance our understanding of new social and cultural realities driven by the dramatic population shifts of recent decades, including greater heterogeneity within ethnic groups and increased interethnic contact. Fellowships are awarded to current UCLA graduate students and predoctoral candidates with demonstrated interest in ethnic studies to aid in the completion of a thesis or dissertation. Terms of awarded fellowships may range from one to three quarters and cover in-state tuition and fees plus a stipend of $6,000–$7,400 per quarter. The acceptance of a fellowship includes a commitment to contributing to the activities of the sponsoring ethnic studies research center.
Application deadline: January 27, 2025. For more information and to apply:
https://iac.ucla.edu/funding/graduate.
IAC Research Grants
The UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) invites applications for support of research in African American studies, American Indian studies, Asian American studies, and Chicana/o studies for 2025–26. The Institute also invites proposals on interethnic relations that will increase collaboration between the centers and/or between the centers and other campus units. Open to all UCLA faculty, lecturers SOE, staff, graduate students, and IAC visiting scholars.
Application deadline: March 3, 2025. For more information and to apply:
https://iac.ucla.edu/funding/grants
Shirley Hune Inter-Ethnic/ Inter-Racial Studies Award
The UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC), which includes the four ethnic studies research centers, offers an award from Dr. Shirley Hune to support doctoral student research that addresses inter-ethnic and inter-racial issues, especially from historical and applied social science perspectives. While at UCLA, Dr. Hune chaired the Executive Committee of the Institute of American Cultures from 1993–2007 and was an associate dean in the Graduate Division from 1992–2007. She is a professor emerita in urban planning.
Application deadline: March 3, 2025. For more information and to apply:
https://iac.ucla.edu/funding/hune-award
Aztlán, the premier journal of Chicana/o studies and a copublication of CSRC Press and UC Press, is inviting new submissions. Aztlán publishes scholarship relevant to Chicana/o studies from all disciplines and interdisciplinary research as well. We welcome submissions in English and Spanish.
Essays
Our essays are research-based and come from a wide variety of disciplines—literature, sociology, history, political science, the arts, linguistics, gender studies, ethnic studies, and many other fields—but they always engage the Chicana/o experience. All essays are peer reviewed and are frequently revised to meet the journal’s standards for quality research. Essays typically run about 10,000–12,000 words in length.
Dossiers
The dossier section provides a forum for multiple and shorter engagements with a specific theme that examines an aspect of Chicana/o studies; this might be an object of study, theoretical or disciplinary questions, a methodology, or one scholar’s work. The dossier section, while still of a scholarly nature, is designed to be exploratory, provocative, or experimental in approach. Aztlán will consider working with a guest curator—a scholar who wishes to create a dossier theme and can help manage dossier development. Contact Heather Birdsall at
hbirdsall@chicano.ucla.edu to explore this opportunity.
Book Reviews
If you are an advanced PhD student or junior or senior faculty and you are interested in writing a book review for us, we will gladly consider suggested titles, or we can recommend a book that matches your field of interest. To inquire about reviews, contact our book review coordinator at
revieweditor@chicano.ucla.edu.
To submit: All submissions should be sent to our submission inbox at submissions@chicano.ucla.edu. For complete information about Aztlán and our submission guidelines, please visit the CSRC website. Please direct queries to Heather Birdsall, assistant editor, at hbirdsall@chicano.ucla.edu.
NEWS
CSRC cohosts 2024 Latinx Welcome
On October 15, the CSRC partnered with multiple campus organizations to host the
2024 Latinx Welcome to celebrate the campus Latinx community. This year’s event, “Celebrando el Poder de Nuestra Comunidad y Corazones,” took place at UCLA Wilson Plaza and featured food, dancing, and tabling by campus organizations. Over 2,000 faculty, staff, and new and continuing undergraduate, graduate, and professional students attended the event.
Latina Futures webinars on CSRC YouTube
CSRC hosts Lompoc high school students
On November 7, the CSRC hosted forty-five high school students, all juniors and seniors, who are involved with Future for Lompoc Youth (FLY), a youth organization based in Lompoc and a CSRC partner on the CSRC’s Thriving Youth Study. CSRC student workers Linsey Rodriguez and Kennedy McIntyre led the visit, which included lunch at Ackerman Union, a welcome by Celia Lacayo, CSRC assistant director, a tour of the CSRC, including the CSRC Library, and a presentation on financial aid and college basics. The students then took a tour of the campus.
CSRC cohosts community college students
On November 8, thirteen Los Angeles City College (LACC) students visited the CSRC during “Caminando Juntos: Central American Transfer Writing Workshop and Tour,” a daylong event organized by the LACC Transfer Center and cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Community College Partnerships, UNICA de UCLA, and the CSRC. The event was designed to introduce these students to UCLA, providing valuable insights into the campus environment, academic opportunities, and student life while fostering a sense of belonging for students from marginalized communities. Activities included a personal insight questions (PIQ) writing workshop, in which students received guidance on crafting their responses on the UC application. In addition, participants received a campus tour and engaged with current UCLA students to gain further insight into the university. CSRC student worker Jeannette Ciudad-Real coordinated the CSRC’s participation in the event.
CSRC cosponsors Ramos book talk
Award-winning journalist Paola Ramos discussed her latest book,
Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America (Penguin Random House, 2024) at the CSRC on October 14. Ramos’s book challenges the notion that Latina/os are a monolithic, politically left electorate. Organized by the Latino Politics and Policy Institute (LPPI), the event included discussants Michelle Torres, assistant professor of political science, and Celia Lacayo, CSRC assistant director. Amada Armenta, associate professor of urban planning, LPPI faculty director, and CSRC faculty associate, served as moderator.
CSRC hosts Chávez-Moreno book talk
On November 19, the CSRC hosted a talk by Laura Chávez-Moreno, assistant professor in the UCLA Departments of Education and Chicana/o and Central American studies. Chávez-Moreno’s book,
How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press, 2024), examines the pivotal role schools play in shaping concepts of race and Latinidad. Daniel Solórzano, professor of education, and Celia Lacayo, CSRC assistant director, served as discussants, and Inmaculada García-Sánchez, professor of education, served as moderator. The event was held In the CSRC Library.
General Secretary Ramírez visits California
During Labor Day week, the CSRC, the Latina Futures 2050 Lab, and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment cosponsored a tour by Abelina Ramírez, general secretary of the National Independent Democratic Union of Agricultural Workers (Sindicato Independiente Nacional Democrático de Jornaleros Agrícolas, or SINDJA). SINDJA, Mexico’s only federally recognized independent farmworkers' union, was formed in 2015 after a twelve-week strike in the San Quintín Valley in Baja California. Ramírez spoke about the strike in visits to Oxnard, Santa Maria, Salinas, and Madero, where she was joined by Indigenous farmworkers associated with Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP) and Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño (CBDIO). The goal of their discussions was to foster solidarity between farmworker communities on both sides of the border.
IAC hosts Fall Forum
On October 22, the UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) held its annual Fall Forum. This year’s online event featured four of the 2024–25 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellows at UCLA’s ethnic studies centers. Research topics and speakers were “Forestry and Its Environmental Impacts in Chile: Experiences from the Mapuche Community” by Pablo Millalen Lepin (American Indian Studies Center); “Sikh Media: Sovereignty, Religion, and Race” by Randeep Singh Hothi (Asian American Studies Center); “Creating Pathways for Underrepresented Students in Higher Education: The Role of Undergraduate Research” by Audrey Devost (Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies); and “Cultivating Learning Environments for Adolescents' Critical Race Consciousness” by Bernardette Pinetta (CSRC).
CSRC cosponsors fall screenings
The CSRC partnered with the UCLA Film and Television Archive to present two evenings of screenings this fall. On October 26, the program
“Border Wars: The Radical Ethnography of John T. Caldwell” featured three films by Caldwell, a UCLA distinguished research professor, that trace the history and persistence of migrant worker exploitation and labor organizing in rural California, as well as the deep and tangled roots of the white grievance that fed populist rhetoric during the recent election cycle. On November 3, the CSRC cosponsored a screening of
Sleep Dealer (US/Mexico, 2008), followed by a Q&A with cowriter and director Alex Rivera.
Sleep Dealer was screened as part of the series “Science Fiction Against the Margins,” organized by the Film and Television Archive and the Department of Film and Television for the Getty initiative PST ART: Art and Science Collide. An anthology related to the screening series is forthcoming
from CSRC Press.
PRESS
CSRC Press publication wins book award
New volume in the CSRC Press series A Ver
Acclaimed artist Amalia Mesa-Bains has gained international recognition both for her multimedia installations that evoke the Chicana experience and as a celebrated cultural theorist, curator, arts educator, and community organizer. This lively book from esteemed cultural historian Tomás Ybarra-Frausto recounts pivotal moments from her life and career, examining the intertwined worlds of Latinx culture, social movements, and contemporary art. It is, in the author’s words, an “art historical biography-memoire” that offers a uniquely personal understanding of Mesa-Bains’s prolific artistic practice and situates her life and work in the United States’ cultural and political milieu since the 1960s.
Amalia Mesa-Bains may be purchased from the distributor of the A Ver series,
University of Minnesota Press.
Fall issue of Aztlán
The Fall 2024 issue of
Aztlán opens with a special Editor’s Commentary that describes the events in spring 2024, when a peaceful student-led demonstration in support of the Palestinian people turned into a confrontation between the demonstrators and outside agitators and law enforcement. The article features the photographs of UCLA student Hernán Robleto (a pseudonym).
The first two essays consider how Chicanx communities navigate and influence social change. Anthony R. Jerry compares the structures and strategies of two San Diego–based nonprofit organizations, and Lorena V. Márquez addresses the shift in focus from Chicanx rights to a broader emphasis on pan-Latinx immigrant and human rights in the 1980s. The final two essays explore intersections of violence and exploitation within Chicanx communities via media texts. Salvador Zárate considers the film A Better Life (2011) in his examination of collaboration between the carceral state archive and ethnographic practices, and Alicia Muñoz looks at the concepts of slow violence and gore capitalism in the novel Bang! (2017).
The Dossier section, curated by Richard T. Rodríguez and David Lloyd, celebrates the life and work of beloved poet, writer, scholar, and teacher Alfred Arteaga. Contributors, in addition to the curators, are Frederick Luis Aldama, José Anguiano, Harry Gamboa Jr., Ramón García, Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Melissa Mora Hidalgo, Ryuta Imafuku, Marcelle Maese, José Navarro, and Laura E. Pérez.
The issue’s cover and the Artist’s Communiqué feature the work of Albuquerque-based artist Vicente Telles. For more information and to subscribe, visit online.ucpress.edu/aztlan.
LIBRARY
CSRC hosts Homosaurus Summit
On August 7–9, the CSRC hosted the first “Spanish Homosaurus Summit,” which was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Homosaurus is an online list of LGBTQ terminology that was created primarily as a companion to the subject headings used by libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions. The summit included a workshop on a Spanish-language version of the Homosaurus, which is in development as part of the grant; a collections tour of the CSRC Library’s LGBTQIA materials; and a community-codesigned session on the next steps needed to meet grant goals. In total, twenty-nine people from academic institutions, libraries, and community organizations across Los Angeles County attended. The Homosaurus project is led by Marika Cifor, associate professor of information studies at the University of Washington, and K. J. Rawson, professor
of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern University. CSRC Library is a project partner. For more information on the Homosaurus visit
https://homosaurus.org/.
Flores coauthors book chapter
Xaviera Flores, CSRC librarian and archivist, and Joy Holland, associate librarian at the American Indian Studies Center Library, contributed a chapter to
Creating an Inclusive Library: Approaches for Increasing Engagement and Use with Students of Color (Association of College and Research Libraries, October 2024). Their contribution, “A Tale of Two Ethnic Studies Libraries: A Community-Driven Model for BIPOC Inclusion,” provides a case study and history of the community-driven and inclusive work that the UCLA ethnic studies research center libraries have produced since their founding in 1969.
Flores represents CSRC at Comic-Con
On July 27, Xaviera Flores was a participant on the panel “Hip-Hop and Comics: Cultures Combining” at San Diego International Comic-Con. Other panelists were muralist and graffiti artist Deity; Acori Honzo, cofounder of Let’s Be Onyx (LBO); rapper and artist Jack “WildChild” Brown; musician, singer, and actor DJ Lance Rock; rapper and artist Murs; and Walter Greason, Dewitt Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College. Patrick Reed, curator and pop culture journalist, was the moderator. Flores’s presentation explored the history of Latinx comics and visual literature in conversation with hip-hop culture and the Chicano and civil rights movement. On July 28, Reed and Flores comoderated “Comic Culture on Display: The World of Pop Media Exhibitions.” Panelists were Ben Saunders, professor of English at the University of Oregon; Rachel Pinnelas, writer and editor at DC Comics; and Michele Urton, deputy director of the Skirball Museum.
Summer seminar includes library tour
On August 21, Xaviera Flores welcomed to the library forty junior and senior undergraduate students enrolled in CCAS-191, “Variable Topics Research Seminars: Chicana/o and Central American Studies,” taught by Eric Avila, professor of history, urban planning, and Chicana/o and Central American studies. Flores introduced the students to the history of the UCLA ethnic studies research centers and the wide range of collections and rich primary source resources available through the CSRC Library.
Flores consults on youth arts center exhibition
During summer 2024, students in the Lincoln Heights Youth Arts Center (LHYC) Youth Leadership Committee conducted archival work at the CSRC Library for
Justice in Our Barrios, Paz al Mundo: A Moratorium on War and Carrying the Legacy Forward, the inaugural exhibition at the LHYC’s El Pueblo de Lincoln Heights Art Gallery. Xaviera Flores served as a curatorial and community consultant. The exhibition chronicles the rise of Mexican American empowerment from the 1920s to the present and features items from the personal archive of lifelong activist Rosalio Muñoz, one of the organizers of the Chicano Moratorium. The exhibition closes February 28, 2025.
Collections processed
Laura Esquivel Papers are now available for research. Laura Esquivel is a Latina lesbian activist whose papers explore the Latinx LGBTQ+
movement in Los Angeles from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. Materials include correspondence, magazines, meeting minutes and notes, newsletters, political memorabilia, reports, and other materials that cover Esquivel's policy and advocacy work with Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos (GLLU), Lesbianas Unidas (LU), and the National Latino/a Lesbian Gay Organization (LLEGÓ) and her time as an aide for Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg. The collection was processed as part of the Latina Futures 2050 Lab.
Edward Escobar Papers are now available for research. Edward "Ed" Escobar is a historian and professor emeritus at Arizona State University The collection includes research materials and scholarly papers on the police brutality faced by the Chicano and Mexican American communities in the Los Angeles area. Materials, which date back to the 1900s, document police brutality and efforts to stop it by organizations, institutions, and the community. Materials include audio cassettes, correspondence, newspapers, oral histories, posters, prints, and records from other organizations and archival collections. Topics include institutional racism, Chicano/Latino youth, misconduct and brutality, criminal cases, Chicano/Latino community relations, labor relations, Zoot Suiters, and more. The collection was processed as part of the archival project “Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration,” supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
CSRC Library hosts two exhibitions in Fall 2024
This fall the CSRC Library hosted two exhibitions:
Latina Lesbian Lineage and a
Day of the Dead exhibition.
Latina Lesbian Lineage, a
Latina Futures 2050 Lab project curated by CSRC Library staffers Jocelyne Sanchez and Vanessa Quintero, presented archival materials that highlight the historical narratives of changemakers Laura M. Esquivel, Elena I. Popp, and Yolanda Retter Vargas. The women were pivotal players in local, regional, and national Latina organizations aimed at advancing LGBTQ+ rights and political presence.
The Day of the Dead exhibition featured artworks from students’ final projects for CCAS 113, “Day of the Dead Ritual and Visual Culture,” taught by Gaby R. Gomez, doctoral candidate in Chicana/o and Central American studies. Both exhibitions were on view through December 13.
Recent publications
The following recent publications include research conducted with CSRC collections:
Van Ells, Mark D. Red Arrow across the Pacific: The Thirty-Second Infantry Division during World War II. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2024. Consulted the James and Margarita Mendez Papers.
Joseph, Brandon W., and Drew Sawyer, eds. Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines. New York: Phaidon, 2024. Consulted the Gronk Papers.
Chavoya, C. Ondine, and David Evans Frantz, eds. Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art. Los Angeles: Inventory Press, 2024. Consulted the Gronk Papers, the Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (CARA) Records, and the Lionel Biron Collection of Mail Art.
Izaguirre, José G., III. Becoming La Raza: Negotiating Race in the Chican@ Movement(s). University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025. Consulted the La Raza Photograph Collection.
Exhibitions on view with CSRC loans
The following exhibitions currently on view include images and artworks from CSRC collections and publications:
Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, through December 22, 2024
Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, through January 5, 2025
Justice in Our Barrios, Paz al Mundo: A Moratorium on War and Carrying the Legacy Forward, El Pueblo de Lincoln Heights Art Gallery, Lincoln Heights Youth Arts Center, Los Angeles, California, through February 28, 2025.
Histories of Latino/a and Latinx Medicine in California, Lane Medical Library lobby, Stanford, California. Also online in English and Spanish.
General library services are available Monday through Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Archives and research services are available by appointment only. The library will be closed December 16, 2024–January 3, 2025. To schedule a research consultation, please CLICK HERE. For all other inquiries and support, please email librarian@chicano.UCLA.edu or visit our research guide at https://guides.library.ucla.edu/csrc. UCLA students can also seek reference assistance on the UCLA Slack Channel #csrc-library-reference-help.
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The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a land grant institution, we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.
