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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Dear Senators,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">We begin every Senate meeting by having someone read the land
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">acknowledgment<span style="color:black">, which recognizes that the University of Oregon is located on land stolen from its original inhabitants, the Kalapooya. You can read a bit more
</span></span><a href="https://senate.uoregon.edu/senates-land-acknowledgment" target="_blank" title="https://senate.uoregon.edu/senates-land-acknowledgment"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">here</span></a>
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">about the form and meaning of the acknowledgment.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">I am writing this message to request any senator who is interested in reading the land acknowledgment to send me (cc Betina) a quick message to that effect, so we can schedule in who will read
is for the remaining 8 Senate meetings this year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Thank you in advance!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Spike<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">P.S. <span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">For those with anxiety regarding pronunciation of Tribal names, for this year only we have a special offer of advance coaching from a professor of Linguistics who actually works with Native
languages of the Americas…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#767171">Spike Gildea <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#767171">Professor of Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#767171">President of the University Senate, 2021-2022</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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