Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University stands on the territory the university identifies as Wopowog, connected to the Setalcott people. Its campus relationships include Algonquian language revitalization, an Indigenous language and art exhibition, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and support for Native students. Stony Brook is a living Long Island example of Indigenous language revitalization, Native-led and Native-connected scholarship, public art, and student support taking place on Setalcott territory. Stony Brook University’s main campus is located in the place the university identifies as Wopowog , on the territory of the Setalcott people. That acknowledgment places the university’s contemporary work in Native American and Indigenous Studies within the living history of eastern Long Island, rather than treating Indigenous presence as only a subject of the past. Language revitalization and...