Visit “We Live and Study in the Same Buildings” by Grace Ettinger ’22.

“In 1892, two people joined the Smith community. Their lives would overlap, and their ongoing legacies continue to mark campus. This is both a story of Hinook-Mahiwi-Kalinaka, also known as Angel De Cora (Ho-Chunk), an Indigenous artist, activist, and teacher persevering the face of extreme adversity, and the story of Professor Harris Hawthorne Wilder, a white scientist whose research contributed to the prevailing scientific racism of the time, and resulted in the desecration of hundreds of Indigenous graves.

Buildings on Smith campus have been named for each of them, yet the whole story is rarely told. The places where De Cora and Wilder studied and worked, and the academic buildings that held Indigenous human remains, are still in use today. I have created an interactive map that encourages visitors to contemplate institutional memory through place.”